Job 6:2
Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
In Context
1Then responded Job, and said:—
3For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.
Cross References
Job 23:2Even to-day, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.
Proverbs 14:10The heart, knoweth its own bitterness, and, in its joy, no stranger shareth.
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 →