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| 1 Then responded Job, and said:– |
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| 2 Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin–into the balances, they would lift up all at once! |
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| 3 For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered. |
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| 4 For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me. |
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| 5 Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder? |
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| 6 Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? |
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| 7 My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food. |
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| 8 Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant! |
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| 9 That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off! |
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| 10 So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare,–That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One. |
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| 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire? |
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| 12 Is my strength, the strength of stones? Or is, my flesh, of bronze? |
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| 13 Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me? |
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| 14 The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake. |
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| 15 Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear: |
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| 16 Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow: |
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| 17 By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place. |
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| 18 Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost: |
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| 19 The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them: |
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| 20 They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded. |
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| 21 For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear. |
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| 22 Is it that I said, Make me a gift, or, out of your abundance, offer a bribe on my behalf; |
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| 23 And deliver me from the hand of the adversary? And, out of the hand of tyrants, ransom me? |
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| 24 Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. |
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| 25 How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide? |
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| 26 To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair? |
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| 27 Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend! |
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| 28 But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood, |
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| 29 Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it! |
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| 30 Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin? |
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