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I refused[a] to touch them;
they are like food that will make me ill.[b]
O that[c] my request may come,
and that God may grant my hope,
that[d] God would decide that[e] he would crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and kill me.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:7 Literally “My soul/throat refuses”
  2. Job 6:7 Literally “the illness of my bread/food”
  3. Job 6:8 Literally “Who would give”
  4. Job 6:9 Hebrew “and”
  5. Job 6:9 Hebrew “and”
  6. Job 6:9 Literally “he would cut me off”