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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Oh that my vexation were weighed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all my calamity laid in the balances!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore my words have been rash.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the arrows of the Almighty are in me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my spirit drinks their poison;</span><br /><span class="indent">the terrors of God are arrayed against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass,</span><br /><span class="indent">or the ox low over his fodder?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,</span><br /><span class="indent">or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My appetite refuses to touch them;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are as food that is loathsome to me.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">b</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Oh that I might have my request,</span><br /><span class="indent">and that God would fulfill my hope,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that it would please God to crush me,</span><br /><span class="indent">that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">This would be my comfort;</span><br /><span class="indent">I would even exult<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">c</a></sup></span> in pain unsparing,</span><br /><span class="indent">for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What is my strength, that I should wait?</span><br /><span class="indent">And what is my end, that I should be patient?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Have I any help in me,</span><br /><span class="indent">when resource is driven from me?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“He who withholds<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Syriac, Vulgate (compare Targum); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">d</a></sup></span> kindness from a friend</span><br /><span class="indent">forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed,</span><br /><span class="indent">as torrential streams that pass away,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">which are dark with ice,</span><br /><span class="indent">and where the snow hides itself.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When they melt, they disappear;</span><br /><span class="indent">when it is hot, they vanish from their place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The caravans turn aside from their course;</span><br /><span class="indent">they go up into the waste and perish.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The caravans of Tema look,</span><br /><span class="indent">the travelers of Sheba hope.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are ashamed because they were confident;</span><br /><span class="indent">they come there and are disappointed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you have now become nothing;</span><br /><span class="indent">you see my calamity and are afraid.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Teach me, and I will be silent;</span><br /><span class="indent">make me understand how I have gone astray.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How forceful are upright words!</span><br /><span class="indent">But what does reproof from you reprove?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you think that you can reprove words,</span><br /><span class="indent">when the speech of a despairing man is wind?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You would even cast lots over the fatherless,</span><br /><span class="indent">and bargain over your friend.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“But now, be pleased to look at me,</span><br /><span class="indent">for I will not lie to your face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Please turn; let no injustice be done.</span><br /><span class="indent">Turn now; my vindication is at stake.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is there any injustice on my tongue?</span><br /><span class="indent">Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Syriac, Vulgate (compare Targum); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard 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