Job 6:2
I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
In Context
3Compared to the sand of the sea, they would appear heavier, and so my words are full of sorrow.
Cross References
Job 23:2Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
Proverbs 14:10The heart that knows the bitterness of its own soul, in its gladness the outsider shall not meddle.
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 →