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Job - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- Then Job answered and said,
- Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
- For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
- For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
- Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- My soul refuseth to touch `them'; They are as loathsome food to me.
- Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant `me' the thing that I long for!
- Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
- Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
- Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
- To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
- Which are black by reason of the ice, `And' wherein the snow hideth itself:
- What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
- The caravans `that travel' by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
- The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
- They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.
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