Job 6:3

For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

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Cross References

Job 37:19Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.

Psalms 77:4Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;

Matthew 11:28Come unto me! all ye that toil and are 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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