Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Job 6
²⁵ Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to?
²⁶ Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation?
²⁷ You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.
²⁸ Look at me! Would I lie to your face?
²⁹ Stop assuming my guilt, for I have done no wrong.
³⁰ Do you think I am lying? Don’t I know the difference between right and wrong?
Job 7
¹ “Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
² like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid.
³ I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
⁴ Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
⁵ My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.