Job 6:2
“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
In Context
3For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash.
Cross References
Job 23:2“Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, || My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.
Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, || And a stranger does not interfere with 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 →