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Job 6:1 (NIV)
Then Job replied:
Job 6:2 (NIV)
“If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
Job 6:3 (NIV)
It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been impetuous.
Job 6:4 (NIV)
The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
Job 6:5 (NIV)
Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
Job 6:6 (NIV)
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow ?
Job 6:7 (NIV)
I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
Job 6:8 (NIV)
“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
Job 6:9 (NIV)
that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
Job 6:10 (NIV)
Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11 (NIV)
“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
Job 6:12 (NIV)
Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
Job 6:13 (NIV)
Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
Job 6:14 (NIV)
“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15 (NIV)
But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
Job 6:16 (NIV)
when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
Job 6:17 (NIV)
but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
Job 6:18 (NIV)
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.
Job 6:19 (NIV)
The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
Job 6:20 (NIV)
They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.
Job 6:21 (NIV)
Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.
Job 6:22 (NIV)
Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,
Job 6:23 (NIV)
deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
Job 6:24 (NIV)
“Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
Job 6:25 (NIV)
How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?