Job 6 · Verse 2

Job 6:2

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 6:2, King James Version

Job 6:2 in other translations

BSB“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
WEB“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
ASVOh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
YLTO that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
DARBYOh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
BBEIf only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
WebsterOh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

What does Job 6:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
FIRST SERIES CONTINUED.

Job 6:1-30. Reply of Job to Eliphaz.

2. throughly weighed--Oh, that instead of censuring my complaints when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized with me, thou wouldst accurately compare my sorrow, and my misfortunes; these latter "outweigh in the balance" the former.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his sufferings; and if this could not be done, he wished that his sufferings and his complainings might be weighed together; and it would then be seen that, bitter as his complaint had been, it was little when compared with the distress which occasioned it.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 6:1-7

Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is harder to bear than any outward afflictions. What then did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross, when he bare our sins, and his soul was made a sacrifice to Divine justice for us! Whatever burden of affliction…

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Job 6:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ל֗וּLu<if>H3863
שָׁק֣וֹלsha.Kolcertainly [if] <to weigh>H8254
יִשָּׁקֵ֣לyi.sha.Kelit will be weighedH8254
כַּעְשִׂ֑יka'.Sigrief myH3708
וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗יve.hai.ya.tiand destruction myH1942
בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִםbe.mo.ze.Na.yimin [the] balancesH3976
יִשְׂאוּ\־yis.'u-people will raiseH5375
יָֽחַד\׃Ya.chadtogetherH3162

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 6:2

  • Job 23:2

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

  • Job 31:6

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Job 4:5

    But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
throughly.
4:5; 23:2
laid. Heb. lifted up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 6:1

    But Job answered and said,

  • Job 6:2

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

  • Job 6:3

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

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Job 6:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¡Oh si pesasen al justo mi queja y mi tormento, y se alzasen igualmente en balanza!
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Oh! si mon chagrin était bien pesé, et si on mettait toute ma calamité dans la balance!
German
Elberfelder 1871		O daß mein Gram doch gewogen würde, und man mein Mißgeschick auf die Waagschale legte allzumal!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Utinam appenderentur peccata mea quibus iram merui, et calamitas quam patior, in statera!