Job 6:1-30 NIV
Job
1Then Job replied:
2“If only my anguish
could be weighed
and all
my misery be placed on the scales!
3It would surely outweigh
the sand of the seas—
no
wonder my words have been impetuous.
my
spirit drinks in their poison;
GOD’s Terrors Are Marshaled Against me.
5Does a wild donkey bray
when it has grass,
or an
ox bellow when it has fodder?
6Is tasteless food eaten
without salt,
7I refuse to touch it;
such
food makes me ill.
8“Oh, that I might have
my request,
that
GOD Would Grant what I hope for,
9that GOD Would Be Willing To Crush me,
to Let Loose His Hand and Cut Off my life!
10Then I would still have
this consolation—
my joy
in unrelenting pain—
that I
had not denied The WORDS of The HOLY ONE.
11“What strength do I
have, that I should still hope?
What
prospects, that I should be patient?
12Do I have the strength
of stone?
Is my
flesh bronze?
13Do I have any power to
help myself,
now
that success has been driven from me?
14“Anyone who withholds
kindness from a friend
forsakes
the fear of The ALMIGHTY.
15But my brothers are as
undependable as intermittent streams,
as the
streams that overflow
16when darkened by thawing
ice
and
swollen with melting snow,
17but that stop flowing in
the dry season,
and in
the heat vanish from their channels.
18Caravans turn aside from
their routes;
they go
off into the wasteland and perish.
19The caravans of Tema
look for water,
the
traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
20They are distressed,
because they had been confident;
they
arrive there, only to be disappointed.
21Now you too have proved
to be of no help;
you see
something dreadful and are afraid.
22Have I ever said, ‘Give
something on my behalf,
pay a
ransom for me from your wealth,
23deliver me from the hand
of the enemy,
rescue
me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
24“Teach me, and I will be quiet;
show me where I have been wrong.
25How painful are honest
words!
But
what do your arguments prove?
26Do you mean to correct
what I say,
and
treat my desperate words as wind?
27You would even cast lots
for the fatherless
and
barter away your friend.
28“But now be so kind as
to look at me.
Would I
lie to your face?
29Relent, do not be
unjust;
reconsider,
for my integrity is at stake.b
30Is there any wickedness
on my lips?
Can my
mouth not discern malice?
Chapter 6
Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an
air of assurance; very confident he was that what he had said was so plain and
so pertinent that nothing could be objected in answer to it.
Job is not convinced by all he had said,
but still justifies
himself in his complaints and condemns him for the weakness of his
arguing.
I. He shows that he had just cause to
complain as he did of his troubles, and so it would appear to any impartial
judge (v. 2-7).
II. He continues his passionate wish
that he might speedily be cut off by the stroke of death, and so be eased of
all his miseries (v. 8-13).
III. He reproves his friends for their
uncharitable censures of him and their unkind treatment (v. 14-30).
It must be admitted that Job, in all
this, spoke much that was reasonable, but with a mixture of passion and human
infirmity. And in this contest, as indeed in most contests, there was fault on
both sides, Job and his friend Eliphaz.
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