# Job 6 [[Job 5|←]] • [[Job 7|→]] --- ### 1 But Job answered and said, ### 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! ### 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. ### 4 For the arrows of the Almighty within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: 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 is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there taste in the white of an egg? ### 7 The things my soul refused to touch as my sorrowful meat. ### 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant the thing that I long for! ### 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! ### 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. ### 11 What my strength, that I should hope? and what mine end, that I should prolong my life? ### 12 my strength the strength of stones? or my flesh of brass? ### 13 not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? ### 14 To him that is afflicted pity from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. ### 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the stream of brooks they pass away; ### 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, wherein the snow is hid: ### 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. ### 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. ### 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. ### 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. ### 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see casting down, and are afraid. ### 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? ### 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? ### 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. ### 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ### 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, as wind? ### 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig for your friend. ### 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for evident unto you if I lie. ### 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness in it. ### 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?