6Job 6

Job

2If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,Select Job 6:2

3they would weigh more than the sands of the sea, so my wild words should not surprise you.Select Job 6:3

4Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.Select Job 6:4

5A donkey is content when eating grass, and a cow is quiet when eating hay.Select Job 6:5

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

7I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.Select Job 6:7

8Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?Select Job 6:8

9If only he would go ahead and kill me!Select Job 6:9

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.Select Job 6:10

11What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?Select Job 6:11

12Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?Select Job 6:12

13I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.Select Job 6:13

14In trouble like this I need loyal friends— whether I've forsaken God or not.Select Job 6:14

15But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.Select Job 6:15

16The streams are choked with snow and ice,Select Job 6:16

17but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.Select Job 6:17

18Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.Select Job 6:18

19Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,Select Job 6:19

20but their hope dies beside dry streams.Select Job 6:20

21You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.Select Job 6:21

22Have I asked you to give me a gift or to bribe someone on my behalfSelect Job 6:22

23or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?Select Job 6:23

24All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.Select Job 6:24

25Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.Select Job 6:25

26You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?Select Job 6:26

27You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!Select Job 6:27

28Look me in the face. I won't lie.Select Job 6:28

29You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.Select Job 6:29

30But you think I am lying— you think I can't tell right from wrong.Select Job 6:30