B<\/span>ut Job answered and said,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?<\/span> <\/p>\n