Job 6:1-30 LSV

[1] And Job answers and says: [2] “O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together! [3] For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash. [4] For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me! [5] Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender? [6] Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams? [7] My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food. [8] O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope! [9] That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off! [10] And yet it is my comfort || (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), || That I have not hidden || The sayings of the Holy One. [11] What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life? [12] Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh bronze? [13] Is my help not with me, || And substance driven from me? [14] To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes. [15] My brothers have deceived as a brook, || As a stream of brooks they pass away. [16] That are black because of ice, || By them snow hides itself. [17] By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished from their place. [18] The paths turn aside of their way, || They ascend into emptiness, and are lost. [19] Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, || Travelers of Sheba hoped for them. [20] They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded. [21] Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid. [22] Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me? [23] And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones? [24] Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand. [25] How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves? [26] For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate? [27] You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend. [28] And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie? [29] Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it. [30] Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”