Thematic Bible
Job 6:1 (show verse)
JOB ANSWERED:
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Job 6:2 (show verse)
If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
Job 6:3 (show verse)
It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas, no wonder my words have been impetuous.
Job 6:4 (show verse)
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
Job 6:5 (show verse)
Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
Job 6:6 (show verse)
Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there flavor in the white root of the marshmallow plant (or the white of an egg)?
Job 6:7 (show verse)
I refuse to touch it! This repugnant food makes me ill.
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Job 6:8 (show verse)
Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for.
Job 6:9 (show verse)
Oh that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off!
Job 6:10 (show verse)
Then I would still have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11 (show verse)
What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
Job 6:12 (show verse)
Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh made of bronze?
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Job 6:13 (show verse)
Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
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Job 6:14 (show verse)
A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty.
Job 6:15 (show verse)
But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
Job 6:16 (show verse)
when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
Job 6:17 (show verse)
but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanishes from their channels.
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Job 6:18 (show verse)
Caravans turn aside from their routes. They go into the wasteland and perish.
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Job 6:19 (show verse)
The caravans of Tema look for water. The traveling merchants of Sheba hope and wait in vain.
Job 6:20 (show verse)
They are distressed! They were once confident. They arrive there, only to be disappointed.
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Job 6:21 (show verse)
Now you too have proved to be of no help. You see something dreadful and are afraid.
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Job 6:22 (show verse)
Have I ever said: Give something on my behalf; pay a ransom for me from your wealth,
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Job 6:23 (show verse)
deliver me from the hand of the enemy, ransom me from the clutches of the ruthless'?
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Job 6:24 (show verse)
Teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me where I have been wrong.
Job 6:25 (show verse)
Honest words are so painful! But what do your arguments prove?
Job 6:26 (show verse)
Do you mean to correct what I say? Do you treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
Job 6:27 (show verse)
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
Job 6:28 (show verse)
But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
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Job 6:29 (show verse)
Relent and do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.
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Job 6:30 (show verse)
Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern destructive malice?
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