Job:6-7
rsv@Job:6:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:6:2 @ "O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
rsv@Job:6:3 @ For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
rsv@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
rsv@Job:6:5 @ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
rsv@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?
rsv@Job:6:7 @ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
rsv@Job:6:8 @ "O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
rsv@Job:6:9 @ that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
rsv@Job:6:10 @ This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
rsv@Job:6:11 @ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
rsv@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
rsv@Job:6:13 @ In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
rsv@Job:6:14 @ "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
rsv@Job:6:15 @ My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,
rsv@Job:6:16 @ which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.
rsv@Job:6:17 @ In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
rsv@Job:6:18 @ The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
rsv@Job:6:19 @ The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
rsv@Job:6:20 @ They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
rsv@Job:6:21 @ Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.
rsv@Job:6:22 @ Have I said, `Make me a gift'? Or, `From your wealth offer a bribe for me'?
rsv@Job:6:23 @ Or, `y's hand'? Or, `ppressors'?
rsv@Job:6:24 @ "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.
rsv@Job:6:25 @ How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
rsv@Job:6:26 @ Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
rsv@Job:6:27 @ You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
rsv@Job:6:28 @ "But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.
rsv@Job:6:29 @ Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.
rsv@Job:6:30 @ Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?
rsv@Job:7:1 @ "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
rsv@Job:7:2 @ Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
rsv@Job:7:3 @ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
rsv@Job:7:4 @ When I lie down I say, `en I lie down I say, "When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
rsv@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
rsv@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
rsv@Job:7:7 @ "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
rsv@Job:7:8 @ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
rsv@Job:7:9 @ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
rsv@Job:7:10 @ he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
rsv@Job:7:11 @ "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Job:7:12 @ Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
rsv@Job:7:13 @ When I say, `en I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
rsv@Job:7:14 @ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
rsv@Job:7:15 @ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
rsv@Job:7:16 @ I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
rsv@Job:7:17 @ What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
rsv@Job:7:18 @ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
rsv@Job:7:19 @ How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
rsv@Job:7:20 @ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
rsv@Job:7:21 @ Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."
rsv@Job:8:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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