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balances!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">therefore my words have been rash.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For the arrows of the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15053a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> are in me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my spirit drinks their poison;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the terrors of God are arrayed against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Does the wild ass bray over its grass,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the ox low over its fodder?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15055b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>My appetite refuses to touch them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are like food that is loathsome to me.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15056c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“O that I might have my request,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and that God would grant my desire;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>that it would please God to crush me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>This would be my consolation;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I would even exult<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15059d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> in unrelenting pain;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>What is my strength, that I should wait?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">And what is my end, that I should be patient?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Is my strength the strength of stones,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or is my flesh bronze?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>In truth I have no help in me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and any resource is driven from me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>“Those who withhold<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15063e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> kindness from a friend</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">forsake the fear of the Almighty.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15063f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like freshets that pass away,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>that run dark with ice,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">turbid with melting snow.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>In time of heat they disappear;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when it is hot, they vanish from their place.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The caravans turn aside from their course;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they go up into the waste, and perish.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The caravans of Tema look,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the travelers of Sheba hope.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>They are disappointed because they were confident;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they come there and are confounded.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Such you have now become to me;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15070g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you see my calamity, and are afraid.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Or, ‘Save me from an opponent’s hand’?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“Teach me, and I will be silent;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">make me understand how I have gone wrong.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>How forceful are honest words!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">But your reproof, what does it reprove?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Do you think that you can reprove words,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as if the speech of the desperate were wind?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>You would even cast lots over the orphan,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and bargain over your friend.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>“But now, be pleased to look at me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for I will not lie to your face.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Turn now, my vindication is at stake.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Is there any wrong on my tongue?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Cannot my taste discern calamity?</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:4">Job 6:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:6">Job 6:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:7">Job 6:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:10">Job 6:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:14">Job 6:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr Vg Compare Tg: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:14">Job 6:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 6:21">Job 6:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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