NHEB - Job - 6

6:1  Then Job answered,

6:2  "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

6:3  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

6:4  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

6:5  Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6:6  Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

6:7  My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

6:8  "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

6:9  even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

6:10  Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

6:11  What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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

6:13  Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

6:14  "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

6:15  My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

6:16  Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

6:17  In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

6:18  The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

6:19  The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

6:20  They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

6:21  For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

6:22  Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

6:23  or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

6:24  "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

6:25  How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

6:26  Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

6:27  Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

6:28  Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

6:29  Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

6:30  Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?