Job 6:1WEB
Then Job answered,
Loading themes
Seek and you shall find
Step 1 of 4
The screens can be English or Spanish. English passages use World English Bible or King James. Spanish passages use the public-domain Reina-Valera 1909.
The text
JobWEB
Job 6:1WEB
Then Job answered,
Job 6:2WEB
“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 6:3WEB
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
Job 6:4WEB
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 6:5WEB
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Job 6:6WEB
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7WEB
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
Job 6:8WEB
“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Job 6:9WEB
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10WEB
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11WEB
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 6:12WEB
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?
Job 6:13WEB
Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?
Job 6:14WEB
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15WEB
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
Job 6:16WEB
which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
Job 6:17WEB
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:18WEB
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:19WEB
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:20WEB
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
Job 6:21WEB
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
Job 6:22WEB
Did I ever say, ‘Give to me’? or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance’?
Job 6:23WEB
or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?
Job 6:24WEB
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
Job 6:25WEB
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 6:26WEB
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:27WEB
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 6:28WEB
Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.
Job 6:29WEB
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Job 6:30WEB
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.