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Job - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- But Job answered, and said:
- O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
- As the sand of the sea this would appear heavier: therefore my words are full of sorrow :
- For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
- Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?
- Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which when tasted bringeth death?
- The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.
- Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
- And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
- And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy One.
- For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?
- My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
- Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
- He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
- My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.
- They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
- At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot they shall be melted out of their place.
- The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
- Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.
- They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.
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