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Job Answers Eliphaz

Then Job answered and said,

(A)Oh that my vexation were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my destruction!
For then it would be (B)heavier than the sand of the seas;
Therefore my words have been rash.
For the (C)arrows of the Almighty are within me,
[a]Their (D)poison my spirit drinks;
The (E)horrors of God are arranged against me.
Does the (F)wild donkey bray over his grass,
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the slime of a [b]yolk?
My soul (G)refuses to touch them;
They are like loathsome food to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:4 Lit Whose
  2. Job 6:6 Heb hallamuth, meaning uncertain; possibly the juice of a plant

Job’s Friends Are No Help

Then Job [a]answered,

(A)Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
“For then it would be (B)heavier than the sand of the seas;
Therefore my words have been rash.
“For the (C)arrows of the Almighty are within me,
[b]Their (D)poison my spirit drinks;
The (E)terrors of God are arrayed against me.
“Does the (F)wild donkey bray over his grass,
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the [c]white of an egg?
“My soul (G)refuses to touch them;
They are like loathsome food to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:1 Lit answered and said
  2. Job 6:4 Lit Whose
  3. Job 6:6 Heb hallamuth, meaning uncertain. Perhaps the juice of a plant