Job 6:3

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

Majority Standard Bible

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“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

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Cross References

Job 37:19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

Psalms 77:4You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, 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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