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Job 6 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has a fodder?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion <i>to be</i> loathsome.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For oh that he would grant <i>my desire</i>, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?<p> <A name="13"></a><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> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Or have I not trusted in him? but help is <i>far</i> from me.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold the ways of the Thaemanites, ye that mark the paths of the Sabaeans.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But ye also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you,<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>