The Bible, King James version, Book 18: JobAnonymous
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The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job
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Bible. Job
18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season.
18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou
it for thy good.
18:006:001 But Job answered and said,
18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid
in the balances together!
18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:
therefore my words are swallowed up.
18:006:004 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.
18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox
over his fodder?
18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
any taste in the white of an egg?
18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
meat.
18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
the thing that I long for!
18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let
loose his hand, and cut me off!
18:006:010 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.
18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
that I should prolong my life?
18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of
brass?
18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his
friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the
stream of brooks they pass away;
18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow
is hid:
18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are
consumed out of their place.
18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing,
and perish.
18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
them.
18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
thither, and were ashamed.
18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are
afraid.
18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
substance?
18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the
hand of the mighty?
18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to
understand wherein I have erred.
18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that
is desperate, which are as wind?
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