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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 6</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/6-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 6</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/job/5.htm" title="Job 5">◄</a> Job 6 <a href="/job/7.htm" title="Job 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Job Replies: My Complaint is Just <a href="/job/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1Then Job answered and said,</a> <a href="/job/6-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!</a> <a href="/job/6-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.</a> <a href="/job/6-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4For 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.</a> <a href="/job/6-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?</a> <a href="/job/6-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?</a> <a href="/job/6-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.</a> <a href="/job/6-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!</a> <a href="/job/6-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!</a> <a href="/job/6-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10And 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.</a> <a href="/job/6-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?</a> <a href="/job/6-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?</a> <a href="/job/6-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?</a> <a href="/job/6-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14To him that is ready to faint kindness'should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</a> <a href="/job/6-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;</a> <a href="/job/6-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:</a> <a href="/job/6-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.</a> <a href="/job/6-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.</a> <a href="/job/6-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.</a> <a href="/job/6-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.</a> <a href="/job/6-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.</a> <a href="/job/6-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?</a> <a href="/job/6-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?</a> <a href="/job/6-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.</a> <a href="/job/6-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?</a> <a href="/job/6-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?</a> <a href="/job/6-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">27Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.</a> <a href="/job/6-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.</a> <a href="/job/6-29.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.</a> <a href="/job/6-30.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">30Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/6-1.htm">Job shows that his complaints are not causeless.</a> 8. <a href="/job/6-8.htm">He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort.</a> 14. <a href="/job/6-14.htm">He reproves his friends of unkindness.</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table><div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a> <iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>