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6:1  But Iyov answered and said,
6:2  Oh that my ka’as (vexation) were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the scales together!
6:3  For now it would be heavier than the chol of the seas; therefore my words are impetuous.
6:4  For the khitzim (arrows) of Shaddai are in me, the poison whereof drinketh my ruach; the terrors of Eloah do set themselves in array against me.
6:5  Doth the pereh (wild donkey) bray when he hath desheh? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6:6  Can that which is tasteless be eaten without melach? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
6:7  The things that my nefesh refused to touch are like my loathsome lechem.
6:8  Who will grant that I might have my she’elah (request); oh that Eloah would grant me my tikveh!
6:9  Even that it would please Eloah to crush me; that He would let loose His yad, and cut me off!
6:10  Then should I yet have nechamah (consolation); yea, I would exult in chilah (pain); let him not spare; for I have not concealed the imrei Kadosh (words of the Holy One).
6:11  What is my koach, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should make patient my nefesh?
6:12  Is my koach the koach of avanim? Or is my basar bronze?
6:13  Is it that my help is not within me? And is tushiyyah (success) driven from me?
6:14  To him that is afflicted, chesed should be shown from his friend; otherwise, he forsaketh the fear of Shaddai.
6:15  Achai (my brethren) have dealt deceitfully as a wadi, and as the torrents of wadis they vanish away;
6:16  Which are blackish muddy by reason of the kerakh (ice), and wherein the sheleg (snow) is melted.
6:17  What season they become warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they disappear from their makom.
6:18  The paths of their derech wind about; they go up to tohu [Gn 1:2], and perish.
6:19  The caravans of Tema looked for them; the halichot (traveling companies) of Sheva hoped for them.
6:20  They were disappointed because of their bitachon; they come there and are confounded.
6:21  For now ye are become such; ye see my chatat (casting down), and are afraid.
6:22  Did I say, Bring unto me? Or, Give a present for me of your ko’ach (power, wealth)?
6:23  Or, Deliver me from the yad tzar (hand of the enemy, oppressor)? Or, Redeem me with a ransom from the yad of the tyrants?
6:24  Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, and cause me to have binah wherein I have erred.
6:25  How forcible are the imrei yosher (words of rectitude)! But what doth your hokhiach (reproof) reprove?
6:26  Do ye think to reprove words? The words of one in despair, which are as ruach?
6:27  Yea, ye cast lots for the yatom, and over your friend ye barter.
6:28  Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; for it is evident unto you if in me there is kazav (falsity).
6:29  Turn, now, let there be no iniquity; yea, turn again; at issue is my tzedek (righteousness).
6:30  Is there iniquity on my leshon? Cannot my palate discern havvot (perverse things)?