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title="Job 5">◄</a> Job 6 <a href="../job/7.htm" title="Job 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job spoke again:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“If my misery could be weighed</p><p class="line2">and my troubles be put on the scales,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>they would outweigh all the sands of the sea.</p><p class="line2">That is why I spoke impulsively.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.</p><p class="line2">Their poison infects my spirit.</p><p class="line2">God’s terrors are lined up against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Don’t I have a right to complain?</p><p class="line2">Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass,</p><p class="line2">and oxen bellow when they have no food?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Don’t people complain about unsalted food?</p><p class="line2">Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My appetite disappears when I look at it;</p><p class="line2">I gag at the thought of eating it!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Oh, that I might have my request,</p><p class="line2">that God would grant my desire.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I wish he would crush me.</p><p class="line2">I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At least I can take comfort in this:</p><p class="line2">Despite the pain,</p><p class="line2">I have not denied the words of the Holy One.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But I don’t have the strength to endure.</p><p class="line2">I have nothing to live for.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Do I have the strength of a stone?</p><p class="line2">Is my body made of bronze?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>No, I am utterly helpless,</p><p class="line2">without any chance of success.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“One should be kind to a fainting friend,</p><p class="line2">but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook</p><p class="line2">that overflows its banks in the spring</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears.</p><p class="line2">The brook vanishes in the heat.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The caravans turn aside to be refreshed,</p><p class="line2">but there is nothing to drink, so they die.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The caravans from Tema search for this water;</p><p class="line2">the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They count on it but are disappointed.</p><p class="line2">When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You, too, have given no help.</p><p class="line2">You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But why? Have I ever asked you for a gift?</p><p class="line2">Have I begged for anything of yours for myself?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Have I asked you to rescue me from my enemies,</p><p class="line2">or to save me from ruthless people?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Teach me, and I will keep quiet.</p><p class="line2">Show me what I have done wrong.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Honest words can be painful,</p><p class="line2">but what do your criticisms amount to?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Do you think your words are convincing</p><p class="line2">when you disregard my cry of desperation?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You would even send an orphan into slavery<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">or sell a friend.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Look at me!</p><p class="line2">Would I lie to your face?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Stop assuming my guilt,</p><p class="line2">for I have done no wrong.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Do you think I am lying?</p><p class="line2">Don’t I know the difference between right and wrong?</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the tasteless juice of the mallow plant?</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">friend, / or he might lose his fear of the Almighty.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">even gamble over an orphan.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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