Job 6:14-30 - You Have Not Treated Me Like True Friends
14 To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away, 16 which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. 17 What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded. 21 For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid. 22 Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
24 Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? 26 Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind? 27 Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me, for truly I shall not lie to your face. 29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous. 30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?