Job 6:3
For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are swallowed vp.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
2Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
Cross References
Job 37:19Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of darknes.
Psalms 77:4Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.
Matthew 11:28Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.
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 →