Job Chapter 6
World English Bible Scriptures

Job 6:1

Then Job answered,

Job 6:2

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

Job 6:3

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

Job 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.

Job 6:5

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

Job 6:6

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

Job 6:7

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

Job 6:8

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

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

Job 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.

Job 6:11

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

Job 6:12

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

Job 6:13

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

Job 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.

Job 6:15

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

Job 6:16

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

Job 6:17

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

Job 6:18

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

Job 6:19

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Job 6:20

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

Job 6:21

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

Job 6:22

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

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

Job 6:24

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

Job 6:25

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

Job 6:26

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Job 6:27

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

Job 6:28

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

Job 6:29

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

Job 6:30

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

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