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6:1  Job said:
6:2  It's impossible to weigh my misery and grief!
6:3  They outweigh the sand along the beach, and that's why I have spoken without thinking first.
6:4  The fearsome arrows of God All-Powerful have filled my soul with their poison.
6:5  Do oxen and wild donkeys cry out in distress unless they are hungry?
6:6  What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?
6:7  That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone. *
6:8  How I wish that God would answer my prayer
6:9  and do away with me.
6:10  Then I would be comforted, knowing that in all of my pain I have never disobeyed God.
6:11  Why should I patiently hope when my strength is gone?
6:12  I am not strong as stone or bronze,
6:13  and I have finally reached the end of my rope.
6:14  My friends, I am desperate, and you should help me, even if I no longer respect God All-Powerful. *
6:15  But you are treacherous
6:16  like streams that swell with melting snow,
6:17  then suddenly disappear in the summer heat.
6:18  I am like a caravan, lost in the desert while searching for water.
6:19  Caravans from Tema and Sheba
6:20  thought they would find water. But they were disappointed,
6:21  just as I am with you. Only one look at my suffering, and you run away scared.
6:22  Have I ever asked any of you to give me a gift
6:23  or to purchase my freedom from brutal enemies?
6:24  What have I done wrong? Show me, and I will keep quiet.
6:25  The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.
6:26  Here I am desperate, and you consider my words as worthless as wind.
6:27  Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!
6:28  Look me straight in the eye; I won't lie to you.
6:29  Stop accusing me falsely; my reputation is at stake.
6:30  I know right from wrong, and I am not telling lies.