Job 6:2
“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
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1 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:
2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
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6 let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
- Job 6:8-114 verses76%
8 A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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23 Job’s Assurance of Vindication“O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
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5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
6 Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
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35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
36 Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;
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6 Abandonment by God and Man“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?
7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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1 IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy(29:1-31:40)Job Recalls His Former Condition Then Job continued his speech:
2 “O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,
- Job 27:1-22 verses72%
1 A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:
2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–
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36 But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.
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17 For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.
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4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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13 Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
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19 And I cried out,“We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought,‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!’
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2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
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12 ל(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.
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18 Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
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24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
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5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
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2 Job spoke up and said:
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7 ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
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20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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1 א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
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1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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16 Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
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22 ת(Tav) Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.
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7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
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19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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15 If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
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5 I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
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8 Blessings for the One Who Seeks God“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.
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13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!