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Job 6:12-22

12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

12 Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?

13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

13 Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,

17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.

18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.

19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

19 The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.

20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

20 They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.

21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

21 Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,

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