Job 6:14-30 - You Have Not Treated Me Like True Friends
14 The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake. 15 Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear: 16 Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow: 17 By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place. 18 Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost: 19 The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them: 20 They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded. 21 For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear. 22 Is it that I said, Make me a gift, or, out of your abundance, offer a bribe on my behalf; 23 And deliver me from the hand of the adversary? And, out of the hand of tyrants, ransom me?
24 Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. 25 How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide? 26 To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair? 27 Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!
28 But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood, 29 Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it! 30 Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?