Job 6:14-30 - You Have Not Treated Me Like True Friends

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all. ¹⁵ My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: ¹⁶ Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; ¹⁷ Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat. ¹⁸ The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction. ¹⁹ The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them: ²⁰ They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone. ²¹ So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear. ²² Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth? ²³ Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

²⁴ Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error. ²⁵ How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments? ²⁶ My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind. ²⁷ Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

²⁸ Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face. ²⁹ Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me. ³⁰ Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?