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Job 6 📜 📕 ↷
Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
1 BUT Job answering, said:📜💬📚
2 would God my sins were weighed, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity, which I suffer, in a balance.📜💬📚
3 As the sand of the sea this would appear heavier, wherefore my words also are full of sorrow:📜💬📚
4 Because the arrows of our Lord be in me, the indignation whereof drinketh up my spirit, & the terrors of our Lord war against me.📜💬📚
5 Will the wild ass roar when he hath grass? Or the oxe loweth when he shall stand before the full manger?📜💬📚
6 Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? Or can a man taste that which being tasted bringeth death?📜💬📚
7 The things which before, my soul would not touch, now for anguish are my meats.📜💬📚
8 Who will grant that my petition may come: and that God would give me that which I expect?📜💬📚
9 And he that hath begun, the same would loose his hand, and cut me off?📜💬📚
10 And this might be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I gainsay the words of the Holy one.📜💬📚
11 For what is my strength, that I can sustain it? Or what is mine end, that I should do patiently?📜💬📚
12 Neither is my strength the strength of stones, neither is my flesh of brass.📜💬📚
13 Behold there is no help for me in my self, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.📜💬📚
14 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of our Lord.📜💬📚
15 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.📜💬📚
16 They that fear the hoarfrost, snow shall fall upon them.📜💬📚
17 At the time, when they shall be dissipated they shall perish: & after they wax hot they shall be dissolved out of their place.📜💬📚
18 The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, & shall perish.📜💬📚
19 Consider ye the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and expect a little while.📜💬📚
20 They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.📜💬📚
21 Now you are come: and even now seeing my plague you are afraid.📜💬📚
22 Have I said: Bring ye to me, and of your substance give to me?📜💬📚
23 Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and out of the hand of the strong deliver me?📜💬📚
24 Teach ye me, and I will hold my peace: and if I perhaps have been ignorant in any thing, instruct ye me.📜💬📚
25 Why have you detracted from the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can control me?📜💬📚
26 To rebuke only you frame speeches, and you utter words in the wind.📜💬📚
27 You rush in upon a pupil, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.📜💬📚
28 Notwithstanding accomplish that which you have begun: give ear, and see whether I lie.📜💬📚
29 Answer I beseech you without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.📜💬📚
30 And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my jaws.📜💬📚
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