Job 6:12-22 (New International Version)
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Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?1
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Do I have any power to help myself,2 now that success has been driven from me?
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"A despairing man3 should have the devotion4 of his friends,5 even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.6
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But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,7 as the streams that overflow
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when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,8
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but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat9 vanish from their channels.
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Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go up into the wasteland and perish.
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The caravans of Tema10 look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba11 look in hope.
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They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.12
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Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.13
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Have I ever said, 'Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom14 for me from your wealth,15
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