They arrive so confident - but what a disappointment! They get there and their faces fall! And you, my so-called friends, are no better - there's nothing to you! One look at a hard scene and you shrink in fear. It's not as though I asked you for anything - I didn't ask you for one red cent - Nor did I beg you to go out on a limb for me. So why all this dodging and shuffling? "Confront me with the truth and I'll shut up, show me where I've gone off track. Honest words never hurt anyone, but what's the point of all this pious bluster? You pretend to tell me what's wrong with my life, but you treat my word of anguish as so much hot air. Are people mere things to you? Are friends just items of profit and loss? --- Job 6:10 - 7:3