Job 6:2 BSB — MannaFest

Job 6:2

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He excuses the passionate expressions he had used when he cursed his day. Though he could not himself justify all he had said, yet he thought his friends should not thus violently condemn it, for really the case was extraordinary, and that might be connived at in such a man of sorrows as he now was which in any common grief would by no means be allowed.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ל֗וּ	Lu	<if>	H3863 →
שָׁק֣וֹל	sha.Kol	certainly [if] <to weigh>	H8254 →
יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל	yi.sha.Kel	it will be weighed	H8254 →
כַּעְשִׂ֑י	ka'.Si	grief my	H3708 →
וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י	ve.hai.ya.ti	and destruction my	H1942 →
בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם	be.mo.ze.Na.yim	in [the] balances	H3976 →
יִשְׂאוּ־	yis.'u-	people will raise	H5375 →
יָֽחַד׃	Ya.chad	together	H3162 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
leads to
- Psalms 7:8–9
  The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- Daniel 5:27
  TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
- Matthew 7:23
  Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
- 1 Samuel 2:3
  Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- Isaiah 26:7
  The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
Through
Job 23:2
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
leads to
- Job 10:1
  “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 7:11
  Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Through
Job 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
leads to
- Job 19:21
  Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job