Job 6

“But Job answered and said,” Naming Job keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!” The line’s distinctive content terms include balances, calamity, grief. Its relationship to verses 1 and 3 shows what work it does in this passage.

“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.” The line’s distinctive content terms include meat, refused, sorrowful. Its relationship to verses 6 and 8 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!” The verse names God rather than leaving the action without a source. Watch whether the next line continues, answers, or contrasts that action.

“Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!” Naming Even keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the…” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.” Naming Almighty keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;” The line’s distinctive content terms include brethren, brook, brooks. Its relationship to verses 14 and 16 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:” The line’s distinctive content terms include blackish, reason, snow. Its relationship to verses 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.” The line’s distinctive content terms include consumed, place, time. Its relationship to verses 18 shows what work it does in this passage.

“The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.” The line’s distinctive content terms include aside, nothing, paths. Its relationship to verses 17 and 19 shows what work it does in this passage.

“The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.” Naming Sheba and Tema keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.” The line’s distinctive content terms include ashamed, confounded, hoped. Its relationship to verses 19 and 21 shows what work it does in this passage.

“For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.” Naming Teach keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.” Naming Yea keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.” The line’s distinctive content terms include content, evident, look. Its relationship to verses 27 and 29 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.” Naming Return keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.