Home Master Index
←Prev   Job 6 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


6:1  Then Job replied:
6:2  ‘I am so upset that nobody could measure it! My problems are too many to weigh!
6:3  They are heavier than all the sand on the shore of the sea. That is why I did not think carefully before I spoke.
6:4  Almighty God has shot his arrows into me. Their poison is now deep inside me. God has sent me many troubles that make me afraid.
6:5  A wild donkey does not complain when it has grass to eat. An ox is quiet when it has its food.
6:6  You cannot enjoy food that has no salt in it. The white part of an egg is not nice to eat on its own.
6:7  I cannot eat that kind of food. It makes me ill.
6:8  I want God to give me what I ask him for. I want him to answer my prayer.
6:9  I would like him to destroy me. He should kill me himself.
6:10  Then I would have peace. I would be happy. I have received much cruel pain. But I have always obeyed the words of the holy God.
6:11  I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life.
6:12  I am not as strong as stones. My body is not strong like bronze.
6:13  I no longer have strength to help myself. There is nowhere that I can go to get help.
6:14  When a man has no hope, his friends should be kind to him. They should help him, even if he no longer respects God Almighty.
6:15  But you, my friends, have not helped me when I need you. You are like streams that quickly become dry. There is no water when you need it.
6:16  In the spring, ice and deep snow covers them.
6:17  But in the hot summer time, all the water disappears. Those streams become completely dry.
6:18  Travellers leave the road to look for water. They find no water to drink and they die in the desert.
6:19  Travellers from Tema look everywhere for these streams. Traders from Sheba hope to find water.
6:20  They are very upset, because they expected to find water. But when they arrive, they are disappointed.
6:21  My friends, you have become like those streams. You see my great problem, and you are afraid.
6:22  I have never said to you, “Give me something to help me. Please use some of your money to rescue me.”
6:23  I have not asked you to save me from the power of my enemy. Or to pay cruel people to let me go free.
6:24  Teach me the truth, and I will listen carefully. Explain to me the mistakes that I have made.
6:25  True words may give pain to the person who listens to them. But the things that you say against me mean nothing.
6:26  You are warning me because of what I say. I have no hope and you think that my words are empty.
6:27  You would play a game to win a child who has no family. You would even sell your friends to become rich yourselves.
6:28  But now, please look at me. I will not tell you any lies.
6:29  Change what you are saying about me. Do not say that I am guilty. Think again, for I am truly a good person.
6:30  I have not spoken any lies. I know what is right and what is wrong.