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Job 5

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 6
#### 1 | Then Job answered and said,
#### 2 | Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
#### 3 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
#### 4 | For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
#### 5 | Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
#### 6 | Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
#### 7 | My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
#### 8 | Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
#### 9 | Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
#### 10 | And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
#### 11 | What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
#### 12 | Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
#### 13 | Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
#### 14 | To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed] from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
#### 15 | My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
#### 16 | Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hideth itself:
#### 17 | What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
#### 18 | The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
#### 19 | The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
#### 20 | They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.
#### 21 | For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
#### 22 | Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?
#### 23 | Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
#### 24 | Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
#### 25 | How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
#### 26 | Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
#### 27 | Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
#### 28 | Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.
#### 29 | Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
#### 30 | Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

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