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1 - And Job answereth and saith: --

2 - O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

3 - For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

4 - For arrows of the Mighty <FI>are<Fi> with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves <FI>for<Fi> me!

5 - Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

6 - Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?

7 - My soul is refusing to touch! They <FI>are<Fi> as my sickening food.

8 - O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

9 - That God would please--and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

10 - 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.

11 - What <FI>is<Fi> my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

12 - Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?

13 - Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

14 - To a despiser of his friends <FI>is<Fi> shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

15 - My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

16 - That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.

17 - By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

18 - Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

19 - Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.

20 - They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.

21 - Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.

22 - Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?

23 - And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?

24 - Shew me, and I--I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

25 - How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

26 - For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.

27 - Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

28 - And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

29 - Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again--my righteousness <FI>is<Fi> in it.

30 - Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?