Job 6:1-7

Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz

1 Then Job answered and said,
2 "If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together [with it] in [the] balances,
3 for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,
4 for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
5 Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?
6 Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?
7 {I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Hebrew "And"
  • [b]. Hebrew "from without"
  • [c]. Literally "My soul/throat refuses"
  • [d]. Literally "the illness of my bread/food"
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