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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job responded: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Or 'Deliver me from the enemy's power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me'? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind? |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face! |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact! |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things? |
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