Job 6

1 And Job answereth and saith: —YLT — Job 6:1

2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!YLT — Job 6:2

3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.YLT — Job 6:3

4 For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!YLT — Job 6:4

5 Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?YLT — Job 6:5

6 Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?YLT — Job 6:6

7 My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.YLT — Job 6:7

8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!YLT — Job 6:8

9 That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!YLT — Job 6:9

10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain — He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.YLT — Job 6:10

11 What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?YLT — Job 6:11

12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?YLT — Job 6:12

13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?YLT — Job 6:13

14 To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.YLT — Job 6:14

15 My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.YLT — Job 6:15

16 That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.YLT — Job 6:16

17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.YLT — Job 6:17

18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.YLT — Job 6:18

19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.YLT — Job 6:19

20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.YLT — Job 6:20

21 Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.YLT — Job 6:21

22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?YLT — Job 6:22

23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?YLT — Job 6:23

24 Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.YLT — Job 6:24

25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?YLT — Job 6:25

26 For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.YLT — Job 6:26

27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.YLT — Job 6:27

28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?YLT — Job 6:28

29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.YLT — Job 6:29

30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?YLT — Job 6:30