Vision International Ministries

Job

6:1: Then Job answered,

6:2: "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

6:3: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

6:4: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

6:5: Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6:6: Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

6:7: My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

6:8: "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

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

6:10: Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

6:11: What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

6:12: Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

6:13: Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

6:14: "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

6:15: My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

6:16: Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:

6:17: In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

6:18: The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

6:19: The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.

6:20: They were distressed because they were confident; They came there, and were confounded.

6:21: For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

6:22: Did I say, 'Give to me?' Or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

6:23: Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

6:24: "Teach me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

6:25: How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

6:26: Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

6:27: Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

6:28: Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face.

6:29: Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.

6:30: Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?