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1 - Then Job answered,

2 - “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

3 - For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

4 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

5 - Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6 - Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

7 - My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

8 - “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

9 - even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

10 - Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

11 - What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

12 - Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

13 - Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

14 - “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

15 - My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

16 - Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

17 - In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18 - The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

19 - The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

20 - They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

21 - For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

22 - Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’

23 - or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’

24 - “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

25 - How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

26 - Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

27 - Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

28 - Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

29 - Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

30 - Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?