{"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/ylt/job/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:25:29.508Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain — He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness is in it."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 6 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 6](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/6 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}