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Job 6

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

But Job answered and said,SelectedJob 6:1Ask

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!SelectedJob 6:2Ask

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.SelectedJob 6:3Ask

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.SelectedJob 6:4Ask

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?SelectedJob 6:5Ask

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?SelectedJob 6:6Ask

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.SelectedJob 6:7Ask

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!SelectedJob 6:8Ask

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!SelectedJob 6:9Ask

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.SelectedJob 6:10Ask

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?SelectedJob 6:11Ask

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?SelectedJob 6:12Ask

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?SelectedJob 6:13Ask

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.SelectedJob 6:14Ask

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;SelectedJob 6:15Ask

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:SelectedJob 6:16Ask

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.SelectedJob 6:17Ask

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.SelectedJob 6:18Ask

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.SelectedJob 6:19Ask

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.SelectedJob 6:20Ask

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.SelectedJob 6:21Ask

Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?SelectedJob 6:22Ask

Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?SelectedJob 6:23Ask

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.SelectedJob 6:24Ask

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?SelectedJob 6:25Ask

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?SelectedJob 6:26Ask

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.SelectedJob 6:27Ask

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.SelectedJob 6:28Ask

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.SelectedJob 6:29Ask

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?SelectedJob 6:30Ask

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