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| 6:1 |
And Job answered and said,
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| 6:2 |
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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| 6:3 |
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.
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| 6:4 |
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.
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| 6:5 |
Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
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| 6:6 |
Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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| 6:7 |
What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
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| 6:8 |
Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
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| 6:9 |
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
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| 6:10 |
Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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| 6:11 |
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?
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| 6:12 |
Is my strength the strength of stones? is my flesh of brass?
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| 6:13 |
Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
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| 6:14 |
For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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| 6:15 |
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
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| 6:16 |
Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:
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| 6:17 |
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
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| 6:18 |
They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
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| 6:19 |
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:
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| 6:20 |
They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.
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| 6:21 |
So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
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| 6:22 |
Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?
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| 6:23 |
Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?
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| 6:24 |
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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| 6:25 |
How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
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| 6:26 |
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
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| 6:27 |
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
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| 6:28 |
Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.
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| 6:29 |
Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
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| 6:30 |
Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
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