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Then Job responded,

But Job answered and said,

"Oh if only my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my disaster!

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

"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; For that reason my words have been rash.

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

"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks their poison; The terrors of God line up against me.

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.

"Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his feed?

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

"Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the juice of an alkanet plant?

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

"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

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