LITV - Job - 6

6:1  And Job answered and said:

6:2  Oh that my vexation were carefully weighed, and my ruin lifted in the balances together!

6:3  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; on account of this my words have been rash.

6:4  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

6:5  Does the wild ass bray over tender grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6:6  Are tasteless things eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the slime of an egg?

6:7  My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me.

6:8  Who will give it that my desire might come, and God would grant my longing;

6:9  and God would be willing and crush me; let loose His hand and cut me off?

6:10  And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

6:11  What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should prolong my life?

6:12  Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?

6:13  Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven from me?

6:14  To the faint, mercy is due from his friend; for he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

6:15  My brothers have dealt deceitfully, like the torrent; like the streams of torrents, they vanish;

6:16  those darkened from ice, in which the snow hides itself.

6:17  At the time they are warmed, they are cut off; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

6:18  The paths of their way bend; they go to nothing, and are lost.

6:19  The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them;

6:20  they were ashamed because they had hoped; they came there, and were ashamed.

6:21  Surely now you have become like it; you see my dismay, and are afraid.

6:22  Did I indeed say, Give to me? Or, offer a bribe for me from your wealth?

6:23  Or, Deliver me from a foe's hand? Or, Redeem me from the oppressors hand?

6:24  Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.

6:25  Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

6:26  Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?

6:27  Yea, you cause even an orphan to fall; and you bargain over your friend.

6:28  And now, please look on me. For if I lie, it is before your face.

6:29  Turn back, I beseech you; let there be no wrong. Yea, return again, for my righteousness is in it.

6:30  Is there wrong in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern desirable things?