Job 6:1-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

Job Speaks: God Has Attacked Me Without Cause

6 Then Job replied ⌞to his friends⌟,

²“If only my grief could be weighed,
if only my misery could be laid on the scales with it,
³then they would be heavier than the sand of the seas.
I spoke carelessly
⁴because the arrows of the Almighty ⌞have found their target⌟ in me,
and my spirit is drinking their poison.
God’s terrors line up in battle against me.

⁵“Does a wild donkey bray when it’s ⌞eating⌟ grass,
or does an ox make a sound over its hay?
⁶Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?
⁷I refuse to touch such things.
They are disgusting to me.

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