American Standard Version (ASV):
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
King James Version (KJV):
[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
American Standard Version (ASV):
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
King James Version (KJV):
[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
American Standard Version (ASV):
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
King James Version (KJV):
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
American Standard Version (ASV):
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
King James Version (KJV):
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
American Standard Version (ASV):
And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
King James Version (KJV):
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.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
King James Version (KJV):
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
American Standard Version (ASV):
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
King James Version (KJV):
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
American Standard Version (ASV):
My soul refuseth to touch [them] ; They are as loathsome food to me.
King James Version (KJV):
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
King James Version (KJV):
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
American Standard Version (ASV):
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
King James Version (KJV):
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
American Standard Version (ASV):
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
King James Version (KJV):
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.