1. Then Job replied:
2. ‘If only my anguish could be weighedand all my misery be placed on the scales!
3. It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas –no wonder my words have been impetuous.
4. The arrows of the Almighty are in me,my spirit drinks in their poison;God’s terrors are marshalled against me.
5. Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
6. Is tasteless food eaten without salt,or is there flavour in the sap of the mallow?
7. I refuse to touch it;such food makes me ill.