Job 6:1-7

Job's Friends Are No Help

1 Then Job answered,
2 "1Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
3 "For then it would be 2heavier than the sand of the seas; Therefore * my words have been rash.
4 "For the 3arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their 4poison my spirit drinks; The 5terrors of God are arrayed against me.
5 "Does the 6wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his fodder?
6 "Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 "My soul 7refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

Cross References 7

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Lit "answered and said"
  • [b]. Lit "Whose"
  • [c]. Heb "hallamuth," meaning uncertain. Perhaps the juice of a plant
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