Job 6:3

For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash.

Literal Standard Version

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

2“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!

4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!

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Cross References

Job 37:19Let us know what we say to Him, || We do not set in array because of darkness.

Psalms 77:4You have taken hold of the watches of my eyes, || I have been moved, and I do not speak.

Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you laboring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest;

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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