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Job 6

¹If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,

³they would weigh more than the sands of the sea, so my wild words should not surprise you.

⁴Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.

⁵A donkey is content when eating grass, and a cow is quiet when eating hay.

⁶But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?

⁷I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.

⁸Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?

⁹If only he would go ahead and kill me!

¹⁰If I knew he would, I would leap for joy, no matter how great my pain. I know that God is holy; I have never opposed what he commands.

¹¹What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?

¹²Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?

¹³I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.

¹⁴In trouble like this I need loyal friends--- whether I've forsaken God or not.

¹⁵But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.

¹⁶The streams are choked with snow and ice,

¹⁷but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.

¹⁸Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.

¹⁹Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,

²⁰but their hope dies beside dry streams.

²¹You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.

²²Have I asked you to give me a gift or to bribe someone on my behalf

²³or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?

²⁴All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.

²⁵Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.

²⁶You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?

²⁷You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!

²⁸Look me in the face. I won't lie.

²⁹You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.

³⁰But you think I am lying--- you think I can't tell right from wrong.