Job 6:1-13

11Then Job replied:

2‘I am so upset that nobody could measure it! My problems are too many to weigh!

3They are heavier than all the sand on the shore of the sea. That is why I did not think carefully before I spoke.

4Almighty God has shot his arrows into me. Their poison is now deep inside me. God has sent me many troubles that make me afraid.

5A wild donkey does not complain when it has grass to eat. An ox is quiet when it has its food.

6You cannot enjoy food that has no salt in it. The white part of an egg is not nice to eat on its own.

7I cannot eat that kind of food. It makes me ill.

8I want God to give me what I ask him for. I want him to answer my prayer.

9I would like him to destroy me. He should kill me himself.

10Then I would have peace. I would be happy. I have received much cruel pain. But I have always obeyed the words of the holy God.

11I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life.

12I am not as strong as stones. My body is not strong like bronze.

13I no longer have strength to help myself. There is nowhere that I can go to get help.