Job 6
6
Job
1-2If 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 pierced 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 tasteless, unsalted food?
What flavour is there in the white of an egg?
7I have no appetite for food like that,
and everything I eat makes me sick.#6.7 Probable text sick; Hebrew unclear.
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 have I got 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#6.14 Probable text trouble; Hebrew unclear. 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#6.21 Probable text like; Hebrew because. those streams to me,#6.21 Some ancient translations and one; Hebrew manuscript to me; most Hebrew manuscripts have two different expressions: nothing in the text and to him in the margin.
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 throw 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.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Job 6
6
Job Reproaches His Friends
1But Job answered and said,
2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,
and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:
therefore my words are swallowed up.
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit:
the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?
Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt?
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7The things that my soul refused to touch
are as my sorrowful meat.
8Oh that I might have my request;
and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9Even that it would please God to destroy me;
that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10Then should I yet have comfort;
yea, I would harden myself in sorrow:
let him not spare;
for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11What is my strength, that I should hope?
And what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
12 Is my strength the strength of stones?
Or is my flesh of brass?
13 Is not my help in me?
And is wisdom driven quite from me?
14To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend;
but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
16which are blackish by reason of the ice,
and wherein the snow is hid:
17what time they wax warm, they vanish:
when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18The paths of their way are turned aside;
they go to nothing, and perish.
19The troops of Tema looked,
the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20They were confounded because they had hoped;
they came thither, and were ashamed.
21For now ye are nothing;
ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
22Did I say, Bring unto me?
or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand?
or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:
and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25How forcible are right words!
But what doth your arguing reprove?
26Do ye imagine to reprove words,
and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,
and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28Now therefore be content, look upon me;
for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;
yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30Is there iniquity in my tongue?
Cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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