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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Then Job answered:

“O that my vexation were weighed
    and all my calamity laid in the balances!(A)
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
    therefore my words have been rash.(B)
For the arrows of the Almighty[a] are in me;
    my spirit drinks their poison;
    the terrors of God are arrayed against me.(C)
Does the wild ass bray over its grass
    or the ox low over its fodder?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
    or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?[b]
My appetite refuses to touch them;
    they are like food that is loathsome to me.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 6.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. 6.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 6.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain