The Book of Job 6

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1 But Job answered and said ⚑

2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed and my calamity laid in the balances together ⚑

3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up ⚑

4 For 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 ⚑

5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass or loweth the ox over his fodder ⚑

6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt or is there any taste in the white of an egg ⚑

7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat ⚑

8 Oh that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for ⚑

9 Even that it would please God to destroy me that he would let loose his hand and cut me off ⚑

10 Then 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 ⚑

11 What is my strength that I should hope and what is mine end that I should prolong my life ⚑

12 Is my strength the strength of stones or is my flesh of brass ⚑

13 Is not my help in me and is wisdom driven quite from me ⚑

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty ⚑

15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the stream of brooks they pass away ⚑

16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice and wherein the snow is hid ⚑

17 What time they wax warm they vanish when it is hot they are consumed out of their place ⚑

18 The paths of their way are turned aside they go to nothing and perish ⚑

19 The troops of Tema looked the companies of Sheba waited for them ⚑

20 They were confounded because they had hoped they came thither and were ashamed ⚑

21 For now ye are nothing ye see my casting down and are afraid ⚑

22 Did I say Bring unto me or Give a reward for me of your substance ⚑

23 Or Deliver me from the enemy’s hand or Redeem me from the hand of the mighty ⚑

24 Teach me and I will hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein I have erred ⚑

25 How forcible are right words but what doth your arguing reprove ⚑

26 Do ye imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one that is desperate which are as wind ⚑

27 Yea ye overwhelm the fatherless and ye dig a pit for your friend ⚑

28 Now therefore be content look upon me for it is evident unto you if I lie ⚑

29 Return I pray you let it not be iniquity yea return again my righteousness is in it ⚑

30 Is there iniquity in my tongue cannot my taste discern perverse things ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain