Job 6 — LSV
6Verse 1And Job answers and says:Verse 2“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!Verse 3For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash.Verse 4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!Verse 5Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender?Verse 6Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?Verse 7My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.Verse 8O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!Verse 9That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!Verse 10And yet it is my comfort || (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), || That I have not hidden || The sayings of the Holy One.Verse 11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?Verse 12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh bronze?Verse 13Is my help not with me, || And substance driven from me?Verse 14To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.Verse 15My brothers have deceived as a brook, || As a stream of brooks they pass away.Verse 16That are black because of ice, || By them snow hides itself.Verse 17By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished from their place.Verse 18The paths turn aside of their way, || They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.Verse 19Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, || Travelers of Sheba hoped for them.Verse 20They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.Verse 21Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.Verse 22Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?Verse 23And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones?Verse 24Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand.Verse 25How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?Verse 26For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?Verse 27You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.Verse 28And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?Verse 29Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.Verse 30Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”