Job 6:2
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
In Context
3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
Cross References
Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its 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 →