Job 6:2
1 But Job answered and said,
Oh that my grief were throughly 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.
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 to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Read in contextJob 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Read in contextJob 4:5
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Read in context