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width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-1.htm">1</a>Then Job replied:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered and said:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-1.htm">1</a>But Job answered and said,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered: </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-2.htm">2</a>"If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-2.htm">2</a>“Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-2.htm">2</a>"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-2.htm">2</a>Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-2.htm">2</a>If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it in the scales. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-3.htm">3</a>It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas-- no wonder my words have been impetuous.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-3.htm">3</a>For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-3.htm">3</a>"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; Therefore my words have been rash.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-3.htm">3</a>For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-3.htm">3</a>For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas! That is why my words are rash. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-4.htm">4</a>The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-4.htm">4</a>For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-4.htm">4</a>"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-4.htm">4</a>For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-4.htm">4</a>Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God's terrors are arrayed against me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-5.htm">5</a>Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-5.htm">5</a>Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-5.htm">5</a>"Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his fodder?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-5.htm">5</a>Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-5.htm">5</a>Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass or an ox low over its fodder? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">6</a>Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">6</a>Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">6</a>"Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">6</a>Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">6</a>Is bland food eaten without salt? Is there flavor in an egg white? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-7.htm">7</a>I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-7.htm">7</a>My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-7.htm">7</a>"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-7.htm">7</a>The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-7.htm">7</a>I refuse to touch them; they are like contaminated food. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-8.htm">8</a>"Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-8.htm">8</a>“Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-8.htm">8</a>"Oh that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my longing!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-8.htm">8</a>Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-8.htm">8</a>If only my request would be granted and God would provide what I hope for: </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">9</a>that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">9</a>that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">9</a>"Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">9</a>Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">9</a>that He would decide to crush me, to unleash His power and cut me off! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-10.htm">10</a>Then I would still have this consolation-- my joy in unrelenting pain-- that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-10.htm">10</a>This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-10.htm">10</a>"But it is still my consolation, And I rejoice in unsparing pain, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-10.htm">10</a>Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-10.htm">10</a>It would still bring me comfort, and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-11.htm">11</a>"What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-11.htm">11</a>What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-11.htm">11</a>"What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should endure?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-11.htm">11</a>What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-11.htm">11</a>What strength do I have that I should continue to hope? What is my future, that I should be patient? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-12.htm">12</a>Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-12.htm">12</a>Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-12.htm">12</a>"Is my strength the strength of stones, Or is my flesh bronze?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-12.htm">12</a>Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-12.htm">12</a>Is my strength that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-13.htm">13</a>Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-13.htm">13</a>Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-13.htm">13</a>"Is it that my help is not within me, And that deliverance is driven from me?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-13.htm">13</a>Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-13.htm">13</a>Since I cannot help myself, the hope for success has been banished from me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-14.htm">14</a>"Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-14.htm">14</a>“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-14.htm">14</a>"For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; So that he does not forsake the fear of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-14.htm">14</a>To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-14.htm">14</a>A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends, even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">15</a>But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">15</a>My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">15</a>"My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi, Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">15</a>My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">15</a>My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi, as seasonal streams that overflow </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-16.htm">16</a>when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-16.htm">16</a>which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-16.htm">16</a>Which are turbid because of ice And into which the snow melts.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-16.htm">16</a>Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-16.htm">16</a>and become darkened because of ice, and the snow melts into them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-17.htm">17</a>but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-17.htm">17</a>When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-17.htm">17</a>"When they become waterless, they are silent, When it is hot, they vanish from their place.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-17.htm">17</a>What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-17.htm">17</a>The wadis evaporate in warm weather; they disappear from their channels in hot weather. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-18.htm">18</a>Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-18.htm">18</a>The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-18.htm">18</a>"The paths of their course wind along, They go up into nothing and perish.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-18.htm">18</a>The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-18.htm">18</a>Caravans turn away from their routes, go up into the desert, and perish. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-19.htm">19</a>The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-19.htm">19</a>The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-19.htm">19</a>"The caravans of Tema looked, The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-19.htm">19</a>The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-19.htm">19</a>The caravans of Tema look for these streams. The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-20.htm">20</a>They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-20.htm">20</a>They are ashamed because they were confident; they come there and are disappointed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-20.htm">20</a>"They were disappointed for they had trusted, They came there and were confounded.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-20.htm">20</a>They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-20.htm">20</a>They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water. When they arrive there, they are frustrated. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-21.htm">21</a>Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-21.htm">21</a>For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-21.htm">21</a>"Indeed, you have now become such, You see a terror and are afraid.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-21.htm">21</a>For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-21.htm">21</a>So this is what you have now become to me. When you see something dreadful, you are afraid. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-22.htm">22</a>Have I ever said, 'Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-22.htm">22</a>Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’? Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-22.htm">22</a>"Have I said, 'Give me something,' Or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,'</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-22.htm">22</a>Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-22.htm">22</a>Have I ever said: "Give me something" or "Pay a bribe for me from your wealth" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-23.htm">23</a>deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless'?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-23.htm">23</a>Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-23.htm">23</a>Or, 'Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,' Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants '?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-23.htm">23</a>Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-23.htm">23</a>or "Deliver me from the enemy's power" or "Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless"? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-24.htm">24</a>"Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-24.htm">24</a>“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-24.htm">24</a>"Teach me, and I will be silent; And show me how I have erred.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-24.htm">24</a>Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-24.htm">24</a>Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand what I did wrong. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/6.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-25.htm">25</a>How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-25.htm">25</a>How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-25.htm">25</a>"How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-25.htm">25</a>How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-25.htm">25</a>How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-26.htm">26</a>Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-26.htm">26</a>Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-26.htm">26</a>"Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-26.htm">26</a>Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-26.htm">26</a>Do you think that you can disprove my words or that a despairing man's words are mere wind? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-27.htm">27</a>You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-27.htm">27</a>You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-27.htm">27</a>"You would even cast lots for the orphans And barter over your friend.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-27.htm">27</a>Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-27.htm">27</a>No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-28.htm">28</a>"But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-28.htm">28</a>“But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-28.htm">28</a>"Now please look at me, And see if I lie to your face.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-28.htm">28</a>Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-28.htm">28</a>But now, please look at me; would I lie to your face? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-29.htm">29</a>Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-29.htm">29</a>Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-29.htm">29</a>"Desist now, let there be no injustice; Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-29.htm">29</a>Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-29.htm">29</a>Reconsider; don't be unjust. Reconsider; my righteousness is still the issue. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-30.htm">30</a>Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-30.htm">30</a>Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-30.htm">30</a>"Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern calamities?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-30.htm">30</a>Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/6-30.htm">30</a>Is there injustice on my tongue or can my palate not taste disaster? </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. ESV® Text Edition® (2016): The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv" target="_top">Crossway Bibles</a>. 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