Job justifies his complaints

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Job 6:1: But Job answered and said,
Job 6:2: Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 6:3: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job 6:4: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 6:5: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 6:6: Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7: The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job 6:8: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 6:9: Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10: Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 6:12: Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Job 6:13: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?