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6:1  And Job answered and said,
6:2  Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances!
6:3  For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up.
6:4  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.
6:5  Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder?
6:6  Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
6:7  The things that my soul refused to touch before, now by my sorrow are my food.
6:8  Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
6:9  Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
6:10  Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.
6:11  What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?
6:12  Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of steel?
6:13  Am I not doing all that I can, and even with all this I lack the power to do anything?
6:14  He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.
6:15  My brethren have lied to me as a brook; they passed away as an impetuous stream,
6:16  which was hidden by ice and covered by snow.
6:17  Which in the time of heat, they vanish; when they are heated, they disappear out of their place;
6:18  they turn aside out of the paths of their way; they go to nothing and perish.
6:19  The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.
6:20  They were put to shame because of their hope; they came there and found them confused.
6:21  Now ye are certainly as they; ye have seen the torment and are afraid.
6:22  Did I say, Bring unto me and pay for me out of your substance
6:23  and deliver me from the enemy’s hand and ransom me from the hand of the mighty?
6:24  Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
6:25  How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?
6:26  Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?
6:27  Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.
6:28  Now, therefore, if ye desire, look upon me and see if I shall lie in your presence.
6:29  Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again to look for my righteousness in this.
6:30  If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.