The Book of Job

6:1 Then Job answered and said,

 ^6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed,

 And all my calamity laid in the balances!

 ^6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas:

 Therefore have my words been rash.

 ^6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,

 The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up:

 The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

 ^6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?

 Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

 ^6:6Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt?

 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

 ^6:7My soul refuseth to touch them;

 They are as loathsome food to me.
 
 

 ^6:8Oh that I might have my request;

 And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

 ^6:9Even that it would please God to crush me;

 That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

 ^6:10And be it still my consolation,

 Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not,

 That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

 ^6:11What is my strength, that I should wait?

 And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

 ^6:12Is my strength the strength of stones?

 Or is my flesh of brass?

 ^6:13Is it not that I have no help in me,

 And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

 ^6:14To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend;

 Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

 ^6:15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,

 As the channel of brooks that pass away;

 ^6:16Which are black by reason of the ice,

 And wherein the snow hideth itself:

 ^6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish;

 When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

 ^6:18The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside;

 They go up into the waste, and perish.

 ^6:19The caravans of Tema looked,

 The companies of Sheba waited for them.

 ^6:20They were put to shame because they had hoped;

 They came thither, and were confounded.

 ^6:21For now ye are nothing;

 Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

 ^6:22Did I say, Give unto me?

 Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?

 ^6:23Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand?

 Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

 ^6:24Teach me, and I will hold my peace;

 And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

 ^6:25How forcible are words of uprightness!

 But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

 ^6:26Do ye think to reprove words,

 Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

 ^6:27Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless,

 And make merchandise of your friend.

 ^6:28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me;

 For surely I shall not lie to your face.

 ^6:29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice;

 Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

 ^6:30Is there injustice on my tongue?

 Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?