Job 6:19-30 ▼

19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, || Travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

20 They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.

21 Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.

22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?

23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones?

24 Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand.

25 How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?

26 For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?

27 You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.

28 And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?

29 Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.

30 Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”