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6:1  But Job answered and said:
6:2  “Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
6:3  For now 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; the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit; the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
6:5  Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6:6  Can that which is unsavory 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 are as my distressing meat.
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 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.
6:11  What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
6:12  Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
6:13  Is not my help in me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?
6:14  “To him that is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
6:15  My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away,
6:16  which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid.
6:17  When in time they wax warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
6:18  The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing and perish.
6:19  The troops of Tema looked; the companies of Sheba waited for them.
6:20  They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither and were ashamed.
6:21  For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down and are afraid.
6:22  Did I say, ‘Bring unto me’? or, ‘Give a reward for me of your substance’?
6:23  Or, ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the mighty’?
6:24  “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
6:25  How forceful are right words! But what doth your arguing reprove?
6:26  Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
6:27  Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
6:28  “Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
6:29  Return, I pray you, let there be no iniquity; yea, return again; my righteousness is in it.
6:30  Is there iniquity on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things?