1. Then Job answered:
2. “I wish my suffering could be weighedand my misery put on scales.
3. My sadness would be heavier than the sand of the seas.No wonder my words seem careless.
4. The arrows of the Almighty 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,and an ox is quiet when it has feed.
6. Tasteless food is not eaten without salt,and there is no flavor in the white of an egg.
7. I refuse to touch it;such food makes me sick.
8. “How I wish that I might have what I ask forand that God would give me what I hope for.
9. How I wish God would crush meand reach out his hand to destroy me.
10. Then I would have this comfortand be glad even in this unending pain,because 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 why should I be patient?
12. I do not have the strength of stone;my flesh is not bronze.