Job 6

1Then Job answered,Cross-references: Job 4:1

2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!Cross-references: Job 4:5 · Job 23:2 · Job 31:6

3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.Cross-references: Job 23:2 · Job 37:19 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 77:4 · Prov 27:3 · Matt 11:28

4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.Cross-references: Deut 32:23 · Deut 32:42 · Job 9:17 · Job 16:12 · Job 21:20 · Job 30:15 · +13 more

5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?Cross-references: Ps 42:1 · Ps 104:14 · Jer 14:6 · Joel 1:18

6Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?Cross-references: Lev 2:13 · Job 6:25 · Job 6:30 · Job 12:11 · Job 16:2 · Job 34:3 · +4 more

7My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:12 · 1Ki 22:27 · Job 3:24 · Ps 102:9 · Ezek 4:14 · Ezek 4:16 · +2 more

8“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,Cross-references: Job 6:11 · Job 17:14 · Ps 119:81

9even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!Cross-references: Num 11:14 · 1Ki 19:4 · Job 3:20 · Job 7:15 · Job 14:13 · Job 19:21 · +5 more

10Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.Cross-references: Lev 19:2 · Deut 29:20 · 1Sam 2:2 · Job 3:22 · Job 9:4 · Job 21:33 · +17 more

11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?Cross-references: Job 7:5 · Job 10:20 · Job 13:25 · Job 13:28 · Job 17:1 · Job 17:14 · +5 more

12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?Cross-references: Job 40:18 · Job 41:24

13Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?Cross-references: Job 12:2 · Job 13:2 · Job 19:28 · Job 26:2 · 2Cor 1:12 · Gal 6:4

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.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Job 4:3 · Job 15:4 · Job 16:5 · Job 19:21 · Ps 36:1 · +7 more

15My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;Cross-references: Job 19:19 · Ps 38:11 · Ps 41:9 · Ps 55:12 · Ps 88:18 · Jer 9:4 · +6 more

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

17In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · Job 24:19

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

19The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.Cross-references: Gen 10:7 · Gen 25:3 · Gen 25:15 · 1Ki 10:1 · Ps 72:10 · Isa 21:14 · +2 more

20They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.Cross-references: Jer 14:3 · Jer 17:13 · Rom 5:5 · Rom 9:33

21For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 6:15 · Job 13:4 · Ps 38:11 · Ps 62:9 · Prov 19:7 · +8 more

22Did I ever say, ‘Give to me’? or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance’?Cross-references: 1Sam 12:3 · Job 42:11 · Acts 20:33

23or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?Cross-references: Lev 25:48 · Neh 5:8 · Job 5:20 · Ps 49:7 · Ps 49:15 · Ps 107:2 · +1 more

24“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.Cross-references: Job 5:27 · Job 10:2 · Job 32:11 · Job 32:15 · Job 33:1 · Job 33:31 · +8 more

25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?Cross-references: Job 4:4 · Job 13:5 · Job 16:3 · Job 21:34 · Job 24:25 · Job 32:3 · +5 more

26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?Cross-references: Job 2:10 · Job 3:3 · Job 4:3 · Job 6:4 · Job 6:9 · Job 8:2 · +10 more

27Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.Cross-references: Ex 22:22 · Job 22:9 · Job 24:3 · Job 24:9 · Job 29:12 · Job 31:17 · +13 more

28Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.Cross-references: Job 11:3 · Job 13:4 · Job 27:4 · Job 33:3 · Job 36:4

29Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.Cross-references: Job 17:10 · Job 23:10 · Job 27:4 · Job 34:5 · Job 42:6 · Mal 3:18

30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?Cross-references: Job 6:6 · Job 12:11 · Job 33:8 · Job 34:3 · Job 42:3 · Heb 5:14