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Job Chapter 6

Job
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Job

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In chapter six God asks Job whether he has hidden sin, and Job replies that he has done no wrong. The chapter highlights God’s personal concern for Job’s welfare and the idea that God tests the righteous.

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(1) But Job answered and said,
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Job 4:1

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Job 1:5Job 42:8

(2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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Job 4:5Job 23:2

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Obadiah 1:13

(3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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Proverbs 27:3Matthew 11:28Job 37:19Job 37:20Psalms 40:5Psalms 77:4

(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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Job 16:12Job 16:13Job 16:14Deuteronomy 32:23Deuteronomy 32:42Psalms 7:13Psalms 18:14Psalms 21:12Psalms 38:2Psalms 45:5Lamentations 3:12Lamentations 3:13

(5) Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Psalms 104:14Psalms 42:1Jeremiah 14:6Joel 1:18Joel 1:19Joel 1:20

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Isaiah 1:3Job 39:5I Peter 1:24Psalms 80:13Luke 13:15Deuteronomy 14:5

(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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Job 6:25Job 16:2Leviticus 2:13Luke 14:34Colossians 4:6Job 6:30Job 12:11Job 34:3Psalms 119:103Hebrews 6:4Hebrews 6:5

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Joel 1:4Leviticus 2:13Mark 9:50

(7) The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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I Kings 17:12I Kings 22:27Psalms 102:9Ezekiel 4:14Ezekiel 4:16Ezekiel 12:18Ezekiel 12:19Daniel 10:3

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II Kings 16:15

(8) Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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Job 6:11Job 6:12Job 6:13Job 17:14Job 17:15Job 17:16Psalms 119:81

(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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Job 3:20Job 3:21Job 3:22Job 7:15Job 7:16Job 14:13Numbers 11:14Numbers 11:15I Kings 19:4Jonah 4:3Jonah 4:8Revelation 9:6

(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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Job 3:22Job 21:33Job 9:4Deuteronomy 29:20Romans 8:32II Peter 2:4II Peter 2:5Job 23:12Psalms 37:30Psalms 40:9Psalms 40:10Psalms 71:17

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Jeremiah 8:18

(11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Job 7:5Job 7:6Job 7:7Job 10:20Job 13:25Job 13:28Job 17:1Job 17:14Job 17:15Job 17:16Psalms 39:5Psalms 90:5

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Romans 8:24I Corinthians 9:10

(12) Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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Job 40:18Job 41:24

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I Chronicles 29:2Joshua 14:11Job 18:13Psalms 28:8Psalms 68:34Psalms 84:7

(13) Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Job 19:28II Corinthians 1:12Galatians 6:4Job 12:2Job 12:3Job 13:2

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I Kings 4:30

(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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Job 4:3Job 4:4Job 16:5Job 19:21Proverbs 17:17Romans 12:15I Corinthians 12:26II Corinthians 11:29Galatians 6:2Hebrews 13:3Genesis 20:11Psalms 36:1

(15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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Job 19:19Psalms 38:11Psalms 41:9Psalms 55:12Psalms 55:13Psalms 55:14Psalms 88:18Jeremiah 9:4Jeremiah 9:5Jeremiah 30:14Micah 7:5Micah 7:6

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Isaiah 19:7

(16) Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
(17) What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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I Kings 17:1

(18) The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30Psalms 78:57

(19) The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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Genesis 25:15Isaiah 21:14Jeremiah 25:23Genesis 10:7Genesis 25:3I Kings 10:1Psalms 72:10Ezekiel 27:22Ezekiel 27:23

(20) They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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Jeremiah 14:3Jeremiah 14:4Jeremiah 17:13Romans 5:5Romans 9:33

(21) For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
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Job 6:15Job 13:4Psalms 62:9Isaiah 2:22Jeremiah 17:5Jeremiah 17:6Job 2:11Job 2:12Job 2:13Psalms 38:11Proverbs 19:7Jeremiah 51:9

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(22) Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Job 42:11I Samuel 12:3Acts 20:33

(23) Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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Job 5:20Leviticus 25:48Nehemiah 5:8Psalms 49:7Psalms 49:8Psalms 49:15Psalms 107:2Jeremiah 15:21

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Ruth 4:4Exodus 13:13Exodus 34:20Leviticus 25:49Ruth 4:6

(24) Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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Job 5:27Job 32:11Job 32:15Job 32:16Job 33:1Job 33:31Job 33:32Job 33:33Job 34:32Psalms 32:8Proverbs 9:9Proverbs 25:12

(25) How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Job 4:4Job 16:5Proverbs 12:18Proverbs 16:21Proverbs 16:22Proverbs 16:23Proverbs 16:24Proverbs 18:21Proverbs 25:11Ecclesiastes 12:10Ecclesiastes 12:11Job 13:5

(26) Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Job 2:10Job 3:3Job 3:4Job 3:5Job 3:6Job 3:7Job 3:8Job 3:9Job 3:10Job 3:11Job 3:12Job 3:13

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I Kings 19:11

(27) Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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Job 22:9Job 24:3Job 24:9Job 29:12Job 31:17Job 31:21Exodus 22:22Exodus 22:23Exodus 22:24Psalms 82:3Proverbs 23:10Proverbs 23:11

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Exodus 21:33Revelation 9:2

(28) Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Job 11:3Job 13:4

(29) Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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Job 17:10Malachi 3:18Job 27:4Job 27:5Job 27:6

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Ezekiel 7:13

(30) Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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Job 33:8Job 33:9Job 33:10Job 33:11Job 33:12Job 42:3Job 42:4Job 42:5Job 42:6Job 6:6Job 12:11Job 34:3

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James 3:6

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