Job 6

1 ♥ 📝 T hen Job^H347 answered^H6030 and said,^H559

2 ♥ 📝 Oh that^H3863 my vexation^H3708 were but^H8254 weighed,^H8254 And all my calamity^H1942 laid^H5375 in^H3162 the balances!^H3976

3 ♥ 📝 For now it would be heavier^H3513 than the sand^H2344 of the seas:^H3220 Therefore have my words^H1697 been rash.^H3886

4 ♥ 📝 For the arrows^H2671 of the Almighty^H7706 are within^H5978 me, The poison^H2534 whereof my spirit^H7307 drinketh up:^H8354 The terrors^H1161 of God^H433 do set themselves in array^H6186 against me.

5 ♥ 📝 Doth the wild ass^H6501 bray^H5101 when he hath grass?^H1877 Or loweth^H1600 the ox^H7794 over his fodder?^H1098

6 ♥ 📝 Can that which hath no savor^H8602 be eaten^H398 without salt?^H4417 Or is there^H3426 any taste^H2940 in the white^H7388 of an egg?^H2495

7 ♥ 📝 My soul^H5315 refuseth^H3985 to touch^H5060 [them]; They are as loathsome^H1741 food^H3899 to me.

8 ♥ 📝 Oh that I might have^H935 my request;^H7596 And that God^H433 would grant^H5414 [me] the thing that I long for!^H8615

9 ♥ 📝 Even that it would please^H2974 God^H433 to crush^H1792 me; That he would let loose^H5425 his hand,^H3027 and cut me off!^H1214

10 ♥ 📝 And be it still my consolation,^H5165 Yea, let me exult^H5539 in pain^H2427 that spareth^H2550 not, That I have not denied^H3582 the words^H561 of the Holy One.^H6918

11 ♥ 📝 What is my strength,^H3581 that I should wait?^H3176 And what is mine end,^H7093 that I should be ^H5315 patient?^H748

12 ♥ 📝 Is my strength^H3581 the strength^H3581 of stones?^H68 Or is my flesh^H1320 of brass?^H5153

13 ♥ 📝 Is it not that I have no help^H5833 in me, And that wisdom^H8454 is driven quite^H5080 from me?

14 ♥ 📝 To him that is ready^H4523 to faint kindness^H2617 [should be showed] from his friend;^H7453 Even to him that forsaketh^H5800 the fear^H3374 of the Almighty.^H7706

15 ♥ 📝 My brethren^H251 have dealt deceitfully^H898 as a brook,^H5158 As the channel^H650 of brooks^H5158 that pass away;^H5674

16 ♥ 📝 Which are black^H6937 by reason of the ice,^H7140 [And] wherein the snow^H7950 hideth^H5956 itself:

17 ♥ 📝 What time^H6256 they wax warm,^H2215 they vanish;^H6789 When it is hot,^H2527 they are consumed out^H1846 of their place.^H4725

18 ♥ 📝 The caravans^H734 [that travel] by the way^H1870 of them turn aside;^H3943 They go^H5927 up into the waste,^H8414 and perish.^H6

19 ♥ 📝 The caravans^H734 of Tema^H8485 looked,^H5027 The companies^H1979 of Sheba^H7614 waited^H6960 for them.

20 ♥ 📝 They were put to shame^H954 because they had hoped;^H982 They came^H935 thither, and were confounded.^H2659

21 ♥ 📝 For now ye are nothing; Ye see^H7200 a terror,^H2866 and are afraid.^H3372

22 ♥ 📝 Did I say,^H559 Give^H3051 unto me? Or, Offer a present^H3051 for me of your substance?^H3581

23 ♥ 📝 Or, Deliver^H4422 me from the adversary's^H6862 hand?^H3027 Or, Redeem^H6299 me from the hand^H3027 of the oppressors?^H6184

24 ♥ 📝 Teach^H3384 me, and I will hold my peace;^H2790 And cause me to understand^H995 wherein I have erred.^H7686

25 ♥ 📝 How forcible^H4834 are words^H561 of uprightness!^H3476 But your reproof,^H3198 what doth it reprove?^H3198

26 ♥ 📝 Do ye think^H2803 to reprove^H3198 words,^H4405 Seeing that the speeches^H561 of one that is desperate^H2976 are as wind?^H7307

27 ♥ 📝 Yea, ye would cast [lots]^H5307 upon the fatherless,^H3490 And make merchandise^H3738 of your friend.^H7453

28 ♥ 📝 Now therefore be pleased^H2974 to look^H6437 upon me; For surely^H6440 I shall not lie^H3576 to your face.

29 ♥ 📝 Return,^H7725 I pray you, let there be no injustice;^H5766 Yea, return again,^H7725 my cause is righteous.^H6664

30 ♥ 📝 Is there^H3426 injustice^H5766 on my tongue?^H3956 Cannot my taste^H2441 discern^H995 mischievous things?^H1942