Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.

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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“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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Cross References

Job 37:19Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Psalms 77:4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

Matthew 11:28“Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily 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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