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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 6:1 | But Job answered and said, | And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 6:2 | Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity |
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together! |
| 6:3 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore |
For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash. |
| 6:4 | For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. | For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me! |
| 6:5 | Doth the wild ass bray |
Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender? |
| 6:6 | Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? | Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams? |
| 6:7 | The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. | My soul is refusing to touch! They `are' as my sickening food. |
| 6:8 | Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me |
O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope! |
| 6:9 | Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! | That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off! |
| 6:10 | Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. | And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One. |
| 6:11 | What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? | What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life? |
| 6:12 | Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh |
Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen? |
| 6:13 | Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? | Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me? |
| 6:14 | To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. | To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh. |
| 6:15 | My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; | My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away. |
| 6:16 | Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: | That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself. |
| 6:17 | What time they wax warm, |
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place. |
| 6:18 | The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. | Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost. |
| 6:19 | The troops of |
Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them. |
| 6:20 | They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. | They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded. |
| 6:21 | For now ye are |
Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid. |
| 6:22 | Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? | Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me? |
| 6:23 | Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? | And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me? |
| 6:24 | Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. | Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand. |
| 6:25 | How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? | How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? |
| 6:26 | Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? | For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate. |
| 6:27 | Yea, |
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend. |
| 6:28 | Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is |
And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie? |
| 6:29 | Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. | Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it. |
| 6:30 | Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot |
Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things? |