Job 6:2

O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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In Context

1But Job answered and said,

3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

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Cross References

Job 23:2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Proverbs 14:10The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

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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