Job - Chapter 6 | Good News Translation

  • 1. If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 6:1)}
  • 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.
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