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Job
KJV with Apocrypha
Unverified edition · Chapter 6
Reading language: English · Original language (catalog): Hebrew / Aramaic
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Chapter 6 · All reading sections
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Job 6:1
But Job answered and said,
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Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Source notes · Job 6:3
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- + 6.3 my words…: that is, I want words to express my grief
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Job 6:4
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.
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Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Job 6:7
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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Job 6:8
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Job 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.
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Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Job 6:12
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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Job 6:13
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Job 6:14
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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Job 6:15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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Job 6:16
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
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Job 6:17
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Source notes · Job 6:17
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- 17 when…: Heb. in the heat thereof
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Job 6:18
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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Job 6:19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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Job 6:20
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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Job 6:21
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. to it
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Job 6:22
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Job 6:23
Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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Job 6:28
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Source notes · Job 6:29
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- + 6.29 in it: that is, in this matter
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Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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