Job 6:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 “Oh that my vexation were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my destruction!

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

4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The horrors of God are arranged against me.

5 Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6 Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the slime of a yolk?

7 My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

8 “Oh that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my hope!

9 Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would release His hand and cut me off!