Job 6:2
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
In Context
1And Job made answer and said,
Cross References
Job 23:2Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
Proverbs 14:10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 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. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →