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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 6 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job's Reply to Eliphaz</h5><h3 class="s1">It's Impossible</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.1" class="v18_6_1">1</span>Job said:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.2" class="v18_6_2">2</span>It's impossible to weigh</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_2">my misery and grief!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.3" class="v18_6_3">3</span>They outweigh the sand</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_3">along the beach,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_3">and that's why I have spoken</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_3">without thinking first.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.4" class="v18_6_4">4</span>The fearsome arrows</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_4">of God All-Powerful</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_4">have filled my soul</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_4">with their poison.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.5" class="v18_6_5">5</span>Do oxen and wild donkeys</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_5">cry out in distress</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_5">unless they are hungry?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.6" class="v18_6_6">6</span>What is food without salt?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_6">What is more tasteless</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_6">than the white of an egg?<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.7" class="v18_6_7">7</span>That's how my food tastes,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_7">and my appetite is gone.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_7">* </span><span class="v18_6_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.8" class="v18_6_8">8</span>How I wish that God</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_8">would answer my prayer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.9" class="v18_6_9">9</span>and do away with me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.10" class="v18_6_10">10</span>Then I would be comforted,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_10">knowing that in all of my pain</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_10">I have never disobeyed God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.11" class="v18_6_11">11</span>Why should I patiently hope</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_11">when my strength is gone?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.12" class="v18_6_12">12</span>I am not strong as stone</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_12">or bronze,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.13" class="v18_6_13">13</span>and I have finally reached</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_13">the end of my rope.</span></p><h3 class="s1">My Friends, I Am Desperate</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.14" class="v18_6_14">14</span>My friends, I am desperate,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_14">and you should help me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_14">even if I no longer respect</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_14">God All-Powerful.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_14">* </span><span class="v18_6_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.15" class="v18_6_15">15</span>But you are treacherous</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.16" class="v18_6_16">16</span>like streams that swell</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_16">with melting snow,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.17" class="v18_6_17">17</span>then suddenly disappear</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_17">in the summer heat.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.18" class="v18_6_18">18</span>I am like a caravan,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_18">lost in the desert</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_18">while searching for water.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.19" class="v18_6_19">19</span>Caravans from Tema and Sheba<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.20" class="v18_6_20">20</span>thought they would find water.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_20">But they were disappointed,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.21" class="v18_6_21">21</span>just as I am with you.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_21">Only one look at my suffering,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_21">and you run away scared.</span></p><h3 class="s1">What Have I Done Wrong?</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.22" class="v18_6_22">22</span>Have I ever asked any of you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_22">to give me a gift</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_23"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.23" class="v18_6_23">23</span>or to purchase my freedom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_23">from brutal enemies?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_24"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.24" class="v18_6_24">24</span>What have I done wrong?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_24">Show me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_24">and I will keep quiet.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_25"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.25" class="v18_6_25">25</span>The truth is always painful,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_25">but your arguments</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_25">prove nothing.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_26"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.26" class="v18_6_26">26</span>Here I am desperate,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_26">and you consider my words</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_26">as worthless as wind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_27"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.27" class="v18_6_27">27</span>Why, you would sell an orphan</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_27">or your own neighbor!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_28"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.28" class="v18_6_28">28</span>Look me straight in the eye;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_28">I won't lie to you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_29"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.29" class="v18_6_29">29</span>Stop accusing me falsely;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_29">my reputation is at stake.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_30"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.30" class="v18_6_30">30</span>I know right from wrong,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_30">and I am not telling lies.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">What is more tasteless … egg: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and you should help me … God All-Powerful: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “and if you don't help me, you no longer respect God All-Powerful.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Tema and Sheba: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Tema was a region in northwest Arabia, and Sheba was probably a region in southwest Arabia.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">just … you: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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