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Job 6

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  1. Job 6:1

    But Job answered and said,

  2. Job 6:2

    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

  3. Job 6:3

    For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

  4. Job 6:4

    For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  5. Job 6:5

    Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

  6. Job 6:6

    Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

  7. Job 6:7

    The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

  8. Job 6:8

    Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

  9. Job 6:9

    Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  10. Job 6:10

    Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  11. Job 6:11

    What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  12. Job 6:12

    Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

  13. Job 6:13

    Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  14. Job 6:14

    To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

  15. Job 6:15

    My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

  16. Job 6:16

    Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

  17. Job 6:17

    What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  18. Job 6:18

    The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  19. Job 6:19

    The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

  20. Job 6:20

    They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

  21. Job 6:21

    For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

  22. Job 6:22

    Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

  23. Job 6:23

    Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

  24. Job 6:24

    Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

  25. Job 6:25

    How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

  26. Job 6:26

    Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

  27. Job 6:27

    Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

  28. Job 6:28

    Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

  29. Job 6:29

    Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

  30. Job 6:30

    Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?