Job 6:2

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;