6Job 6

1And Job answereth and saith: --Select Job 6:1

2O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!Select Job 6:2

3For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.Select Job 6:3

4For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!Select Job 6:4

5Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?Select Job 6:5

6Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?Select Job 6:6

7My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.Select Job 6:7

8O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!Select Job 6:8

9That God would please--and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!Select Job 6:9

10And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain--He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.Select Job 6:10

11What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?Select Job 6:11

12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?Select Job 6:12

13Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?Select Job 6:13

14To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.Select Job 6:14

15My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.Select Job 6:15

16That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.Select Job 6:16

17By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.Select Job 6:17

18Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.Select Job 6:18

19Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.Select Job 6:19

20They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.Select Job 6:20

21Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.Select Job 6:21

22Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?Select Job 6:22

23And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?Select Job 6:23

24Shew me, and I--I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.Select Job 6:24

25How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?Select Job 6:25

26For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.Select Job 6:26

27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.Select Job 6:27

28And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?Select Job 6:28

29Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again--my righteousness is in it.Select Job 6:29

30Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?Select Job 6:30