English / ERV
Job 6
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Then Job answered:
- 2“I wish my suffering could be weighed and all my trouble be put on the scales.
- 3They would be heavier than all the sand of the sea! That is why my words are so crazy.
- 4God All-Powerful has shot me with his arrows. My spirit feels their poison! God’s terrible weapons are lined up against me.
- 5Even a wild donkey does not complain when it has grass to eat. And a cow is quiet when it has food.
- 6Food without salt does not taste good, and the white of an egg has no taste.
- 7I refuse to touch that kind of food; it makes me sick!
- 8“I wish I could have what I ask for. I wish God would give me what I want.
- 9I wish he would crush me— just go ahead and kill me!
- 10Then I would be comforted by this one thing: Even through all this pain, I never refused to obey the commands of the Holy One.
- 11“With my strength gone, I have no hope to go on living. With nothing to look forward to, why should I be patient?
- 12I am not strong like a rock. My body is not made from bronze.
- 13I don’t have the power to help myself, because all hope of success has been taken away from me.
- 14“Friends should be loyal to you in times of trouble, even if you turn away from God All-Powerful.[1]
- 15But I cannot depend on you, my brothers. You are like a stream that has no water when the weather is dry but is flooded when the rains come.