### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 5

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 6
#### 1 | But Job answered, and said:
#### 2 | O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
#### 3 | As the sand of the sea this would appear heavier: therefore my words are full of sorrow :
#### 4 | For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
#### 5 | Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?
#### 6 | Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which when tasted bringeth death?
#### 7 | The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.
#### 8 | Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
#### 9 | And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
#### 10 | And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy One.
#### 11 | For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?
#### 12 | My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
#### 13 | Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
#### 14 | He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
#### 15 | My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.
#### 16 | They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
#### 17 | At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot they shall be melted out of their place.
#### 18 | The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
#### 19 | Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.
#### 20 | They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.
#### 21 | Now you are come: and now seeing my affliction you are afraid.
#### 22 | Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your substance?
#### 23 | Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?
#### 24 | Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing, instruct me.
#### 25 | Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
#### 26 | You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
#### 27 | You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
#### 28 | However finish what you have begun, give ear, and see whether I lie.
#### 29 | Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.
#### 30 | And you shall not And iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.

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