Job refuted Eliphaz’ claim

6 Then Job spoke again, saying to Eliphaz,

2 “If all my troubles and misery could be put on a scale and weighed,

3 they would be heavier than all the sands on the shores of the oceans.

That is why I spoke ◄very rashly/without thinking clearly► about the day that I was born.

4 It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows.

It is as though those arrows had poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit.

The things that God has done to me have terrified me.

5 Just like a wild donkey does not complain by braying when it has plenty of grass to eat,

and an ox does not complain by bellowing when it has food to eat [MET],

I would not complain if you were really helping/comforting me.

6 People complain [RHQ] when they must eat food which has no salt

or other tasteless food [MET],

and that is what your words are like, Eliphaz.

7 Just like I do not want to eat food like that,

and I loathe/detests that kind of food [MET],

I do not appreciate what you have said to me.

8 “I wish that God would do for me what I have requested from him [DOU].

9 I wish that he would crush me and let me die.

I wish that he would reach out his hand and take away my life.

10 If he would do that, I would be comforted by knowing that in spite of the great pain that I have suffered,

I have always obeyed what God, the Holy One, has commanded.

11 But now I do not have [RHQ] enough strength to endure all these things.

And since I have nothing to hope for in ◄the future/this life►,

it is difficult for me to be patient now [RHQ].

12 I am not [RHQ] strong like rocks are,

and my body is not made of bronze.

13 So I am not able to help myself,

and it seems that there is no one to rescue me.”