Top Verses from Job 6  

I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill. (NIV)

[These afflictions] my soul refuses to touch! Such things are like diseased food to me [sickening and repugnant]! (AMP)

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

That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life! (NIV)

I even wish that it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! (AMP)

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

"Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for," (NIV)

Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! (AMP)

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! (KJV)

"Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty." (NIV)

To him who is about to faint and despair, kindness is due from his friend, lest he forsake the fear of the Almighty. (AMP)

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (KJV)

Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me? (NIV)

Is it not that I have no help in myself, and that wisdom is quite driven from me? (AMP)

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? (KJV)

The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope. (NIV)

The caravans of Tema looked [for water], the companies of Sheba waited for them [in vain]. (AMP)

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. (KJV)

Then I would still have this consolation – my joy in unrelenting pain – that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. (NIV)

Then would I still have consolation--yes, I would leap [for joy] amid unsparing pain [though I shrink from it]--that I have not concealed or denied the words of the Holy One! (AMP)

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. (KJV)

"What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?" (NIV)

What strength have I left, that I should wait and hope? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient? (AMP)

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? (KJV)

Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze? (NIV)

Is my strength and endurance that of stones? Or is my flesh made of bronze? (AMP)

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? (KJV)

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow (NIV)

[You] my brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away (AMP)

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; (KJV)