New Living Translation

Job 6:1-8 New Living Translation (NLT)

1. Then Job spoke again:

2. “If my misery could be weighedand my troubles be put on the scales,

3. they would outweigh all the sands of the sea.That is why I spoke impulsively.

4. For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.Their poison infects my spirit.God’s terrors are lined up against me.

5. Don’t I have a right to complain?Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass,and oxen bellow when they have no food?

6. Don’t people complain about unsalted food?Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?

7. My appetite disappears when I look at it;I gag at the thought of eating it!

8. “Oh, that I might have my request,that God would grant my desire.