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  • 1. And Job answered and said,
  • 2. Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
  • 3. For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.
  • 4. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.
  • 5. Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
  • 6. Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
  • 7. What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
  • 8. Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
  • 9. And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
  • 10. Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • 11. What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?
  • 12. Is my strength the strength of stones? is my flesh of brass?
  • 13. Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
  • 14. For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
  • 15. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
  • 16. Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:
  • 17. At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
  • 18. They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
  • 19. The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:
  • 20. They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.
  • 21. So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
  • 22. Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?
  • 23. Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?
  • 24. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • 25. How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
  • 26. Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
  • 27. Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
  • 28. Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.
  • 29. Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
  • 30. Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?