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        • 1. Then Job replied:
            • 2. "If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
                • 3. It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas--no wonder my words have been impetuous.
                    • 4. The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me.
                        • 5. Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
                            • 6. Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
                                • 7. I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
                                    • 8. "Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
                                        • 9. that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off!
                                            • 10. Then I would still have this consolation--my joy in unrelenting pain--that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
                                                • 11. "What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
                                                    • 12. Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
                                                        • 13. Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
                                                            • 14. "A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
                                                                • 15. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
                                                                    • 16. when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
                                                                        • 17. but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
                                                                            • 18. Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go up into the wasteland and perish.
                                                                                • 19. The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
                                                                                    • 20. They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.
                                                                                        • 21. Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.
                                                                                            • 22. Have I ever said, 'Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,
                                                                                                • 23. deliver me from the hand of the enemy, ransom me from the clutches of the ruthless'?
                                                                                                    • 24. "Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
                                                                                                        • 25. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
                                                                                                            • 26. Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
                                                                                                                • 27. You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
                                                                                                                    • 28. "But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
                                                                                                                        • 29. Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.
                                                                                                                            • 30. Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?
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