Job 6:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 Ah, could my anguish but be measured and my calamity laid with it in the scales,

3 They would now outweigh the sands of the sea! Because of this I speak without restraint.

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

5 Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass? Does the ox low over its fodder?

6 Can anything insipid be eaten without salt? Is there flavor in the white of an egg?

7 I refuse to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.

8 Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant what I long for:

9 Even that God would decide to crush me, that he would put forth his hand and cut me off!