Job 6 — YLT

6Verse 1And Job answereth and saith: —^{Verse 2}O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!^{Verse 3}For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.^{Verse 4}For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!^{Verse 5}Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?^{Verse 6}Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?^{Verse 7}My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.^{Verse 8}O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!^{Verse 9}That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!^{Verse 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.^{Verse 11}What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?^{Verse 12}Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?^{Verse 13}Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?^{Verse 14}To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.^{Verse 15}My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.^{Verse 16}That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.^{Verse 17}By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.^{Verse 18}Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.^{Verse 19}Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.^{Verse 20}They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.^{Verse 21}Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.^{Verse 22}Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?^{Verse 23}And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?^{Verse 24}Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.^{Verse 25}How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?^{Verse 26}For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.^{Verse 27}Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.^{Verse 28}And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?^{Verse 29}Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.^{Verse 30}Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?