Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. VI. Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an air of assurance; very confident he was that what he had said was so plain and so pertinent that nothing could be objected in answer to it. But, though he that is first in his own cause seems just,…