1 And Job answered and said: VP
2 “If only my grief and my calamity could be weighed thoroughly, lifting [it] up together in the scales! VP
3 For now it is heavy, more than the sand of the sea; [and] upon thus my words have been rash. VP
4 For the arrows of Shaddai [are] within me, whose poison my spirit is drinking [in]; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. VP
5 Does the wild donkey bray over [its] grass? Or the ox bellow over its fodder? VP
6 Is the unsavory eaten without salt? Or is there flavor in the white of an egg? VP
7 My soul refuses to touch [them]; they [are] like disease in my food. VP
8 Who shall grant [that] my request would come? That God may grant my hope! VP
9 [If] God were willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off! VP
10 And yet [this] would be my comfort, and I would leap for joy in [my] anguish—he does not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. VP
11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? And what [is] my end, that I should prolong my life? VP
12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh [made of] bronze? VP
13 [Is] there no help for me in me, when success has been taken away from me? VP
14 To one despairing from his friends [there should be] kindness, and the fear of Shaddai he forsakes. VP
15 My brothers are treacherous like a wadi, like a channel of wadis they pass away, VP
16 those being darkened from the ice, upon which the snow hides itself. VP
17 In the time of burning [heat] they are cut off; in the heat they are extinguished from their place. VP
18 The caravans turn aside [from] their paths; they go up into the wasteland and perish. VP
19 The caravans of Tema look on; the travelers of Sheba hope for them. VP
20 They are ashamed that they had trusted; they come unto her and are confounded. VP
21 For now you⁺ are nothing; you⁺ see terror, and you⁺ are afraid. VP
22 Is it that I said, ‘Give to me, or from your⁺ strength offer a bribe on my behalf? VP
23 Or Deliver me from the hand of the enemy, or ransom me from the hand of dreadful ones’? VP
24 teach me, and I will be silent, and give understanding to me of how I have erred. VP
25 How painful are upright words! Yet what does your⁺ argument prove? VP
26 Do you⁺ think to correct my words? And [are] the sayings of one despairing for wind? VP
27 Indeed, over the fatherless you⁺ make it fall, and you⁺ would trade away your⁺ friend. VP
28 And now, may you be willing to turn toward me, or would I lie to your⁺ face? VP
29 Turn, please, let there not be injustice; and turn even now—my righteousness [is] in it. VP
30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern malice? VP