Alkitab Karaoke

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¹ But Job answered and said,

² Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

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.

⁵ Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

⁷ The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.

⁸ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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.

¹¹ What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?

¹² [Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?

¹³ [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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.

¹⁸ The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

²⁰ They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

²¹ For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.

²² Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

²³ Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.

²⁸ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

²⁹ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.

³⁰ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?