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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 GNT</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" src="../topmenuchap/job/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Job 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/5.htm" 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.1-Job.6.2" class="v18_6_1">1-2</span>If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.3" class="v18_6_3">3</span>they would weigh more than the sands of the sea,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_3">so my wild words should not surprise you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.4" class="v18_6_4">4</span>Almighty God has shot me with arrows,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_4">and their poison spreads through my body.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_4">God has lined up his terrors against me.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.5" class="v18_6_5">5</span>A donkey is content when eating grass,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_5">and a cow is quiet when eating hay.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.6" class="v18_6_6">6</span>But who can eat flat, unsalted food?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_6">What taste is there in the white of an egg?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.7" class="v18_6_7">7</span>I have no appetite for food like that,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_7">and everything I eat makes me sick.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.8" class="v18_6_8">8</span>Why won't God give me what I ask?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_8">Why won't he answer my prayer?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.9" class="v18_6_9">9</span>If only he would go ahead and kill me!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.10" class="v18_6_10">10</span>If I knew he would, I would leap for joy,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_10">no matter how great my pain.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_10">I know that God is holy;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_10">I have never opposed what he commands.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.11" class="v18_6_11">11</span>What strength do I have to keep on living?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_11">Why go on living when I have no hope?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.12" class="v18_6_12">12</span>Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.13" class="v18_6_13">13</span>I have no strength left to save myself;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_13">there is nowhere I can turn for help.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.14" class="v18_6_14">14</span>In trouble<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> like this I need loyal friends—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_14">whether I've forsaken God or not.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.15" class="v18_6_15">15</span>But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_15">that go dry when no rain comes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.16" class="v18_6_16">16</span>The streams are choked with snow and ice,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.17" class="v18_6_17">17</span>but in the heat they disappear,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_17">and the stream beds lie bare and dry.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.18" class="v18_6_18">18</span>Caravans get lost looking for water;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_18">they wander and die in the desert.</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 Sheba and Tema search,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.20" class="v18_6_20">20</span>but their hope dies beside dry streams.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.21" class="v18_6_21">21</span>You are like<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> those streams to me,<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.6.21!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_21">you see my fate and draw back in fear.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.22" class="v18_6_22">22</span>Have I asked you to give me a gift</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_22">or to bribe someone on my behalf</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_23"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.23" class="v18_6_23">23</span>or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_24"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.24" class="v18_6_24">24</span>All right, teach me; tell me my faults.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_24">I will be quiet and listen to you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_25"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.25" class="v18_6_25">25</span>Honest words are convincing,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_25">but you are talking nonsense.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_26"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.26" class="v18_6_26">26</span>You think I am talking nothing but wind;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_26">then why do you answer my words of despair?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_27"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.27" class="v18_6_27">27</span>You would even roll dice for orphan slaves</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_27">and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!</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 in the face. I won't lie.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_29"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.29" class="v18_6_29">29</span>You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_29">Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_6_30"><span class="reftext" id="Job.6.30" class="v18_6_30">30</span>But you think I am lying—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_6_30">you think I can't tell right from wrong.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sick; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.14: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">trouble; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.21: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">like; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">because.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.21: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and one; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew manuscript </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to me; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">most Hebrew manuscripts have two different expressions: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">nothing </char><char style="ft" closed="false">in the text and </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to him </char><char style="ft" closed="false">in the margin.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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