### Noah Webster Bible

Job 5

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 6
| But Job answered and said,
| Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
| For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
| For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
| Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
| Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
| The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
| Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
| Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
| Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
| What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
| Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
| Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
| To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
| My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
| Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and in which the snow is hid:
| In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
| The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
| The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
| They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
| For now ye are nothing: ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
| Did I say, Bring to me? or Give a reward for me of your substance?
| Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
| Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
| How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
| Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
| Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
| Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.
| Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
| Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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