Job 6:3

As the sand of the sea this would appear heavier: therefore my words are full of sorrow :

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

In Context

2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

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Cross References

Job 37:19Shew us what we may say to him : for we are wrapped up in darkness.

Psalms 77:4I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

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 →

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