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Job 6:12
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Job 6 Verses
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"If my misery could be weighed, if you could pile the whole bitter load on the scales, |
3
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It would be heavier than all the sand of the sea! Is it any wonder that I'm screaming like a caged cat? |
4
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The arrows of God Almighty are in me, poison arrows--and I'm poisoned all through! God has dumped the whole works on me. |
5
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Donkeys bray and cows moo when they run out of pasture-- so don't expect me to keep quiet in this. |
6
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Do you see what God has dished out for me? It's enough to turn anyone's stomach! |
7
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Everything in me is repulsed by it-- it makes me sick. |
8
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"All I want is an answer to one prayer, a last request to be honored: |
9
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Let God step on me--squash me like a bug, and be done with me for good. |
10
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I'd at least have the satisfaction of not having blasphemed the Holy God, before being pressed past the limits. |
11
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Where's the strength to keep my hopes up? What future do I have to keep me going? |
12
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Do you think I have nerves of steel? Do you think I'm made of iron? |
13
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Do you think I can pull myself up by my bootstraps? Why, I don't even have any boots! |
14
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"When desperate people give up on God Almighty, their friends, at least, should stick with them. |
15
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But my brothers are fickle as a gulch in the desert-- one day they're gushing with water |
16
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From melting ice and snow cascading out of the mountains, |
17
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But by midsummer they're dry, gullies baked dry in the sun. |
18
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Travelers who spot them and go out of their way for a drink, end up in a waterless gulch and die of thirst. |
19
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Merchant caravans from Tema see them and expect water, tourists from Sheba hope for a cool drink. |
20
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They arrive so confident--but what a disappointment! They get there, and their faces fall! |
21
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And you, my so-called friends, are no better-- there's nothing to you! One look at a hard scene and you shrink in fear. |
22
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It's not as though I asked you for anything-- I didn't ask you for one red cent-- |
23
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Nor did I beg you to go out on a limb for me. So why all this dodging and shuffling? |
24
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"Confront me with the truth and I'll shut up, show me where I've gone off the track. |
25
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Honest words never hurt anyone, but what's the point of all this pious bluster? |
26
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You pretend to tell me what's wrong with my life, but treat my words of anguish as so much hot air. |
27
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Are people mere things to you? Are friends just items of profit and loss? |
28
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"Look me in the eyes! Do you think I'd lie to your face? |
29
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Think it over--no double-talk! Think carefully--my integrity is on the line! |
30
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Can you detect anything false in what I say? Don't you trust me to discern good from evil? |