Job 6 · Clearspring

Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

¹But Job answered and said,+ ²O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!+ ³For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.+ ⁴For 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.+ ⁵Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?+ ⁶Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?+ ⁷The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.+ ⁸Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!+ ⁹Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!+ ¹⁰Then 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.+ ¹¹What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?+ ¹²Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?+ ¹³Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?+ ¹⁴To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.+ ¹⁵My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;+ ¹⁶Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:+ ¹⁷What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.+ ¹⁸The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.+ ¹⁹The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.+ ²⁰They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.+ ²¹For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.+ ²²Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?+ ²³Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?+ ²⁴Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.+ ²⁵How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?+ ²⁶Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?+ ²⁷Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.+ ²⁸Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.+ ²⁹Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.+ ³⁰Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?+

Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

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