Job 6:8-13

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁸ If only my request would be granted.
If only God would grant me what I hope for:
⁹     that God would decide to crush me,
    that he would unleash his hand and cut me off.
¹⁰ For then I would still have this comfort:
    Even as I writhe in relentless pain,^[a]
    I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

¹¹ What strength do I have to wait hopefully?
What end awaits me that would make me want to prolong my life?
¹² Is my strength like stone,
or is my flesh bronze?
¹³ Certainly I have no power to help myself,
    since the hope that I can recover has been driven far away from me.