Job 6:6-20 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

6. What is food without salt?What is more tastelessthan the white of an egg?

7. That's how my food tastes,and my appetite is gone.

10. Then I would be comforted,knowing that in all my painI have never disobeyed God.

11. Why should I patiently hopewhen my strength is gone?

12. I am not strong as stoneor bronze,

13. and I have finally reachedthe end of my rope.

14. My friends, I am desperate,and you should help me,even if I no longer respectGod All-Powerful.

17. then suddenly disappearin the summer heat.

18. I am like a caravan,lost in the desertwhile searching for water.

19. Caravans from Tema and Sheba

20. thought they would find water.But they were disappointed,

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