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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 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/job/6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.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="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/combine/job/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > Job 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><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" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job Replies: My Complaint is Just</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: therefore have my words been rash.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as loathsome meat to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not: for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is mine end, at I should be patient?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Is it not that I have no help in me, and that effectual working is driven quite from me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To him that is ready to faint kindness should be shewed from his friend; even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; they go up into the waste, and perish.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For now ye are nothing; ye see a terror, and are afraid.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Did I say, Give unto me? or, offer a present for me of your substance?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; for surely I shall not lie to your face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; yea, return again, my cause is righteous.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Is there injustice on my tongue? 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