6:1 ^[77] But Job answered and said:

6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together:

6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up:

6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me:

6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder:

6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg:

6:7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat:

6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for:

6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off:

6:10 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:

6:11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life:

6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass:

6:13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me:

6:14 To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty:

6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away:

6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:

6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place:

6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish:

6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them:

6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed:

6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid:

6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance:

6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy' s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty:

6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred:

6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove:

6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind:

6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend:

6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie:

6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it:

6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things: