4. The arrows of God All-Powerful are in me.My spirit drinks in their poison.God’s terrors are gathered against me.
5. A wild donkey does not bray when it has grass to eat.An ox is quiet when it has feed.
6. Tasteless food is not eaten without salt.There is no flavor in the white part of an egg.
7. I refuse to touch it.Such food makes me sick.
8. “How I wish I might have what I ask for.How I wish God would give me what I hope for.
9. I wish God would be willing to crush meand reach out his hand to destroy me.
10. Then I would have this comfort.I would be glad even in this unending pain.I would know I did not reject the words of the Holy One.
11. “I do not have the strength to wait.There is nothing to hope for so how can I be patient?
12. I do not have the strength of stone.My flesh is not bronze.
13. I have no power to help myself.This is because success has been taken away from me.
14. “They say, ‘A man’s friends should be kind to him when he is in trouble.This should be done even if he stops fearing God All-Powerful.’
15. But my brothers cannot be counted on.They are like streams that do not flow regularly,streams that sometimes run over.