Job 6:14-30 - You Have Not Treated Me Like True Friends
14 A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty. 15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow 16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow, 17 but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanishes from their channels. 18 Caravans turn aside from their routes. They go into the wasteland and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema look for water. The traveling merchants of Sheba hope and wait in vain. 20 They are distressed! They were once confident. They arrive there, only to be disappointed. 21 Now you too have proved to be of no help. You see something dreadful and are afraid. 22 Have I ever said: Give something on my behalf; pay a ransom for me from your wealth, 23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy, ransom me from the clutches of the ruthless'?
24 Teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me where I have been wrong. 25 Honest words are so painful! But what do your arguments prove? 26 Do you mean to correct what I say? Do you treat the words of a despairing man as wind? 27 You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
28 But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face? 29 Relent and do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my integrity is at stake. 30 Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern destructive malice?