Job 6:1-30 - Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
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and my devastation
That is why my words are rash.
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
or an ox low over its fodder?
Is there flavor in an egg white?
they are like contaminated food.
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and God would provide what I hope for:
to unleash His power and cut me off!
and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain
that I have not denied
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What is my future, that I should be patient?
or my flesh made of bronze?
the hope for success has been banished from me.
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even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.
as seasonal streams that overflow
and the snow melts into them.
they disappear from their channels in hot weather.
go up into the desert, and perish.
The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
or “Pay a bribe for me from your wealth”
or “Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless”?
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Help me understand what I did wrong.
But what does your rebuke prove?
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
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would I lie to your face?
Reconsider; my righteousness
or can my palate not taste disaster?
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Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
like a hired man he waits for his pay.
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.
My skin forms scabs
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they come to an end without hope.
My eye will never again see anything good.
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
so the one who goes down to Sheol
his hometown will no longer remember
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I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
that You keep me under guard?
and my couch will ease my complaint,
and terrify me with visions,
death rather than life in this body.
Leave me alone,
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and pay so much attention to him?
and put him to the test every moment.
or leave me alone long enough to swallow?
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?
and pardon my transgression?
For soon I will lie down in the grave.
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.