Comprehensive Job 6 Quiz with Answers: Quickly Test Your Knowledge of Job 6

Answer: C — Job compared his calamity to being heavier than the sand of the sea.

KJV Reference: Job 6:3 — “For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.”

Answer: C — Job rhetorically asks if the wild ass brays when it has grass.

KJV Reference: Job 6:5 — “Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?”

Answer: C — Job declared his soul refused to touch his necessary food.

KJV Reference: Job 6:7 — “The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”

Answer: B — Job asked God to destroy him to end his suffering.

KJV Reference: Job 6:9 — “Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”

Answer: B — Job found comfort in the fact he had not hidden God’s words.

KJV Reference: Job 6:10 — “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.”

Answer: B — Job doubted whether he had the strength of stones or flesh of brass.

KJV Reference: Job 6:12 — “Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?”

Answer: D — Job emphasized that pity should be shown to the afflicted from their friend.

KJV Reference: Job 6:14 — “To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.”

Answer: C — He compared his friends to unreliable brooks which vanish in heat.

KJV Reference: Job 6:15 — “My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;”

Answer: C — Caravans hoped in the brooks, but were confounded when they found nothing.

KJV Reference: Job 6:20 — “They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.”

Answer: D — Job challenged them to teach him and show him wherein he had erred.

KJV Reference: Job 6:24 — “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.”

Answer: D — Job said his friends scorned his words which were spoken in despair.

KJV Reference: Job 6:26 — “Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”

Answer: C — Job described his desperate speeches as being like the wind.

KJV Reference: Job 6:26 — “…the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”

Answer: D — Job accused his friends of casting lots upon the fatherless and digging a pit for a friend.

KJV Reference: Job 6:27 — “Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.”

Answer: D — Job asked his friends to look upon him and see if he lied.

KJV Reference: Job 6:28 — “Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.”

Answer: D — Job asked them to stop contending unjustly and let no iniquity be laid upon him.

KJV Reference: Job 6:29 — “Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.”

Answer: D — Job affirmed that his righteousness was in him and he was not guilty.

KJV Reference: Job 6:29 — “Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.”

Answer: D — Job asked them to stop seeing iniquity where there was none.

KJV Reference: Job 6:30 — “Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?”

Answer: B — Job referenced his ‘taste’ to show discernment between right and wrong.

KJV Reference: Job 6:30 — “…cannot my taste discern perverse things?”

Answer: D — Job described the words of the desperate as being like wind.

KJV Reference: Job 6:26 — “…the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”

Answer: C — Job ended by asserting that he could discern right from wrong and was not guilty.

KJV Reference: Job 6:30 — “Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?”