Job Chapter 6

1 And Job answered and said:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully, like the torrent, like the streams of torrents, they pass away;

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

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17 At the time they are warmed, they are cut off; when it is hot they dry up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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