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1 But Job answered and said,
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2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
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17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
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22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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Arrows

At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zech. 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Gen. 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Ezek. 21:21). The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps. 38:2; Deut. 32:23. Comp. Ezek. 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps. 91:5), or bitter words (Ps. 64:3), or false testimony (Prov. 25:18).

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Brook

A torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.

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