Read Job chapter 6 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. In this chapter: Job's Reply to Eliphaz, It's Impossible, My Friends, I Am Desperate, What Have I Done Wrong?.
1 Job said:
2 It's impossible to weigh my misery and grief!
3 They outweigh the sand along the beach, and that's why I have spoken without thinking first.
4 The fearsome arrows of God All-Powerful have filled my soul with their poison.
5 Do oxen and wild donkeys cry out in distress unless they are hungry?
6 What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?
7 That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone. *
8 How I wish that God would answer my prayer
9 and do away with me.
10 Then I would be comforted, knowing that in all of my pain I have never disobeyed God.
11 Why should I patiently hope when my strength is gone?
12 I am not strong as stone or bronze,
13 and I have finally reached the end of my rope.
14 My friends, I am desperate, and you should help me, even if I no longer respect God All-Powerful. *
15 But you are treacherous
16 like streams that swell with melting snow,
17 then suddenly disappear in the summer heat.
18 I am like a caravan, lost in the desert while searching for water.
19 Caravans from Tema and Sheba
20 thought they would find water. But they were disappointed,
21 just as I am with you. Only one look at my suffering, and you run away scared.
22 Have I ever asked any of you to give me a gift
23 or to purchase my freedom from brutal enemies?
24 What have I done wrong? Show me, and I will keep quiet.
25 The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.
26 Here I am desperate, and you consider my words as worthless as wind.
27 Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!
28 Look me straight in the eye; I won't lie to you.
29 Stop accusing me falsely; my reputation is at stake.
30 I know right from wrong, and I am not telling lies.