{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:47:03.979Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Is my strength the strength of stones? is my flesh of brass?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For him that is fainting kindness is meet from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 6 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 6](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/6 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}