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6:1  If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,
6:2  If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,
6:3  they would weigh more than the sands of the sea, so my wild words should not surprise you.
6:4  Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.
6:5  A donkey is content when eating grass, and a cow is quiet when eating hay.
6:6  But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?
6:7  I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.
6:8  Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?
6:9  If only he would go ahead and kill me!
6:10  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.
6:11  What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?
6:12  Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?
6:13  I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.
6:14  In trouble like this I need loyal friends— whether I've forsaken God or not.
6:15  But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.
6:16  The streams are choked with snow and ice,
6:17  but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.
6:18  Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.
6:19  Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,
6:20  but their hope dies beside dry streams.
6:21  You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.
6:22  Have I asked you to give me a gift or to bribe someone on my behalf
6:23  or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?
6:24  All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.
6:25  Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.
6:26  You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?
6:27  You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
6:28  Look me in the face. I won't lie.
6:29  You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.
6:30  But you think I am lying— you think I can't tell right from wrong.