< Job 6 >

1 And Job answereth and saith: —
And he answered Job and he said.
2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Certainly [if] it will be weighed grief my (and destruction my *Q(K)*) in [the] balances people will raise together.
3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
For now more than [the] sand of [the] seas it will be heavy there-fore words my they have been rash.
4 For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
For [the] arrows of [the] Almighty [are] with me which poison their [is] drinking spirit my [the] terrors of God they are arranged against me.
5 Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
¿ Does it bray a wild donkey on grass or? does it low an ox on fodder its.
6 Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
¿ Is it eaten tasteless [food] because not salt or? [is] there taste in [the] slime of purslane.
7 My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
It refuses to touch [them] self my they [are] like [the] illness of food my.
8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Who? will he give it will come petition my and hope my he will give God.
9 That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
And may he be willing God and may he crush me may he loosen hand his and may he cut off me.
10 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.
And may it be still - comfort my and may I jump in anguish [which] not it relents that not I have hidden [the] words of [the] holy [one].
11 What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
What? [is] strength my that I will wait and what? [is] end my that I will prolong life my.
12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
[the] strength of Stones [is] strength my or? [is] flesh my bronze.
13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
¿ If not [is] help my in myself and sound wisdom it has been banished from me.
14 To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
[belongs] to Despairing [person] from friend his loyalty and [the] fear of [the] Almighty he will forsake.
15 My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Brothers my they have acted treacherously like a wadi like a stream-bed of wadis [which] they pass away.
16 That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
That are dark from ice over them it hides itself snow.
17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
At [the] time [when] they flow they are silenced in heat its they are dried up from place their.
18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
They twist [the] paths of way their they go up in the wasteland so they may perish.
19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
They look [the] caravans of Tema [the] travelers of Sheba they look eagerly for them.
20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
They are disappointed for he had been confident they come to it and they were disappointed.
21 Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
For now you have become (it *Q(K)*) you have seen a terror and you were afraid.
22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
¿ For have I said give for me and from wealth your give a reward for me.
23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
And rescue me from [the] hand of an opponent and from [the] hand of ruthless [people] you will ransom me.
24 Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
Teach me and I I will keep silent and what? have I erred explain to me.
25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
How! they are painful words of uprightness and what? does it prove completely from you.
26 For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.
¿ To reprove words do you plan and to wind [the] words of [one who] despairs.
27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
Even on a fatherless one you will make fall and you may bargain on friend your.
28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
And therefore be willing turn on me and on faces your if I will lie.
29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.
Turn back please may not it be injustice (and turn back *Q(K)*) still righteousness my [is] in it.
30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
¿ [is] there On tongue my injustice or? palate my not does it discern destruction.

< Job 6 >