6. But who can eat tasteless, unsalted food?What flavour is there in the white of an egg?
7. I have no appetite for food like that,and everything I eat makes me sick.
8. Why won't God give me what I ask?Why won't he answer my prayer?
9. If only he would go ahead and kill me!
10. If I knew he would, I would leap for joy,no matter how great my pain.I know that God is holy;I have never opposed what he commands.
11. What strength have I got to keep on living?Why go on living when I have no hope?
12. Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?
13. I have no strength left to save myself;there is nowhere I can turn for help.
14. In trouble like this I need loyal friends —whether I've forsaken God or not.
15. But you, my friends, you deceive me like streamsthat go dry when no rain comes.