Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job 6:3 in other translations
| BSB | For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash. |
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| WEB | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash. |
| ASV | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash. |
| YLT | For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash. |
| DARBY | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement. |
| BBE | For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled. |
| Webster | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. |
What does Job 6:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Job 6:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 6:3
- Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
- Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- Psalms 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Job 37:19-20
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
- Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Context
- 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.
- Job 6:4
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.
Job 6:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque pesaría aquél más que la arena del mar: y por tanto mis palabras son cortadas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car maintenant elle pèserait plus que le sable des mers; c’est pourquoi mes paroles sont outrées; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn dann würde es schwerer sein als der Sand der Meere; darum sind unbesonnen meine Worte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quasi arena maris hæc gravior appareret; unde et verba mea dolore sunt plena: |