Job 6:1-9

Job

1 Then Job replied:
2 “If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
3 It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been impetuous.
4 The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
5 Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a] ?
7 I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
8 “Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
9 that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!

Cross References 18

  • 1. Job 31:6; Proverbs 11:1; Daniel 5:27
  • 2. 1 Kings 4:29; Proverbs 27:3
  • 3. ver 11,26; Job 7:11; Job 16:6; Job 21:4; Job 23:2
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 32:23; Psalms 38:2
  • 5. S Genesis 17:1
  • 6. Job 7:20; Job 16:12,13; Job 19:12; Lamentations 3:12
  • 7. Job 21:20
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 32:32; Job 30:21; Job 34:6; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 30:12
  • 9. Job 9:34; Job 13:21; Job 18:11; Job 23:6; Job 27:20; Job 30:15; Job 33:16
  • 10. S Job 3:23; Psalms 88:15-18
  • 11. S Genesis 16:12
  • 12. Job 30:7
  • 13. Job 24:6; Isaiah 30:24
  • 14. Job 33:20; Psalms 107:18
  • 15. S Job 3:24
  • 16. Job 14:13
  • 17. Job 19:2
  • 18. S Numbers 11:15; 1 Kings 19:4; S Psalms 31:22

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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