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Job 6

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1 If my troubles and griefs
1 Then Job replied:
2 were weighed on scales,
2 “If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
3 they would weigh more than the sands of the sea, so my wild words should not surprise you.
3 It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been impetuous.
4 Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.
4 The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
5 A donkey is content when eating grass, and a cow is quiet when eating hay.
5 Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
6 But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?
6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow ?
7 I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.
7 I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
8 Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?
8 “Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
9 If only he would go ahead and kill me!
9 that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
10 If 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.
10 Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
11 What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?
11 “What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
12 Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?
12 Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
13 I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.
13 Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
14 In trouble like this I need loyal friends - whether I've forsaken God or not.
14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15 But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
16 The streams are choked with snow and ice,
16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
17 but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.
19 Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,
19 The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
20 but their hope dies beside dry streams.
20 They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.
21 You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.
21 Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.
22 Have I asked you to give me a gift or to bribe someone on my behalf
22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,
23 or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?
23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
24 All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.
24 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
25 Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.
25 How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
26 You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?
26 Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?
27 You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
27 You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
28 Look me in the face. I won't lie.
28 “But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
29 You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.
29 Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.
30 But you think I am lying - you think I can't tell right from wrong.
30 Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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