Job 6:2
1 Then Job replied:
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
3 For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- KJV
- Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- WEB
- “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- ASV
- Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
- DARBY
- Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- BLB
- “If only my grief and my calamity could be weighed thoroughly, lifting [it] up together in the scales!
- ÅB
- Gid min gremmelse ble veid, og min ulykke samtidig lagt på vekten!
- OTB
- “Om bare min smerte ble veid
og min ulykke lagt i vektskålen sammen! - B1930
- Gid min gremmelse blev veid, og min ulykke samtidig lagt på vekten!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 23:2
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Read in contextJob 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Read in contextJob 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Read in context