Job 6

And Job answered and said, 2 “If only my anguish, being weighed, were weighed, and my calamity lay in the balances together {with it}! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words raved. \* 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me, whose poison my spirit is drinking; the terrors of God array themselves against me. 5 Does a wild donkey bray over grass? If an ox bellows over its fodder? 6 Will the unsavory be eaten without salt? If there is taste in the white of an egg? \* 7 My soul has refused to touch; they {are} like disease {in} my food. 8 Who will grant that my request may come? And may God grant my longing 9 and may God be willing and may he crush me, may he loose his hand and cut me off! \* 10 Yet may it still be my consolation— indeed, let me exult in pain, may he not spare— that I have not concealed the sayings of the Holy One. 11 What {is} my strength, that I should wait? And what {is} my end, that I should prolong my life? \* 12 If my strength {is} the strength of stones? If my flesh {is} bronze? 13 If my help {is} not in me, and initiative has been taken away from me? \* 14 To the despairing, covenant faithfulness from his friend, and the fear of the Almighty he forsakes. 15 My brothers have dealt treacherously like a wadi, like a channel of wadis they pass away, 16 the ones being dark from ice over it, it hides itself with snow. 17 In the time they dry up, they are annihilated; in their being hot, they are exterminated from their place. \* 18 Caravans turn themselves aside from their way; they go up into wasteland and they perish. 19 Caravans from Tema looked; processions of Sheba hoped in them. 20 They were ashamed, because they had been confident; they went as far as it, and they were confounded. \* 21 For now you are nothing; you see a terror and you fear. 22 {Is it} that I said, ‘Give me {something}’? Or, ‘Make a gift to me from your wealth’? 23 Or, ‘Save me from the hand of the enemy’? Or, ‘From the hand of the oppressors rescue me’? \* 24 Teach me, and I will be silent, and how I have strayed, make me understand. 25 How words of uprightness are forceful! But what does correcting from you correct? \* 26 Do you think to correct my words, and to the wind the words of one despairing? 27 Indeed, you cast {lots} for the fatherless, and you haggle over your friend. \* 28 But now, be willing, look at me, and if I would lie to your faces! 29 Please turn, let injustice not be; yes, turn, my righteousness {is} yet in it. 30 Is there injustice on my tongue? If my mouth does not discern iniquity? \*