Job 6:2
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
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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.
1 Then Job answered,
1 Then Job answered,
2 "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
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?
11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
23 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.
6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
2 "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
6 Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.
7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
2 Job answered:
7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
1 "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.
8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;
13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!