---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 6
verse_count: 30
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 6, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 6

*Job's complaints are not causeless He wish-f th for death and reprovtth his friends.*

**1** But Job answered and said,
**2** Oh that my grief were thoroughly 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 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 showed 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?