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Job 6

Good News Translation GNT

1 If my troubles and griefs

2 were weighed on scales,

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 If only he would go ahead and kill me!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

16 The streams are choked with snow and ice,

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

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

19 Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,

20 but their hope dies beside dry streams.

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

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

23 or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?

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

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

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

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

28 Look me in the face. I won't lie.

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

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

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Job answered,

2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

7 My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

8 "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

10 Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:

17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

19 The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.

20 They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were confounded.

21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' Or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

23 Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

24 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

26 Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face.

29 Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.

30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?