Job 6:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

4 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?

6 Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

7 My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

8 “Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,

9 that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!