King James Version

Job 6

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 6:1

But Job answered and said,
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Open Job 6:2

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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Open Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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Open Job 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.
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Open Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Open Job 6:6

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Open Job 6:7

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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Open Job 6:8

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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Open Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Open Job 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.
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Open Job 6:11

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Open Job 6:12

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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Open Job 6:13

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Open Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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Open Job 6:15

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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Open Job 6:16

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
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Open Job 6:17

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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Open Job 6:18

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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Open Job 6:19

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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Open Job 6:20

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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Open Job 6:21

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
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Open Job 6:22

Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Open Job 6:23

Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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Open Job 6:24

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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Open Job 6:25

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Open Job 6:26

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Open Job 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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Open Job 6:28

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Open Job 6:29

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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Open Job 6:30

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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