Job 6:3 KJV — MannaFest

Job 6:3

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

KJV

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ASV

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

WEB

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.

YLT

For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

DBT

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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Cross-references

8 verses on the floor

Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Job 37:19–20
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
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 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

the sand-- (Pr 27:3). are swallowed up--See Margin [that is, "I want words to express my grief"]. But Job plainly is apologizing, not for not having had words enough, but for having spoken too much and too boldly; and the Hebrew is, "to speak rashly" [UMBREIT, GESENIUS, ROSENMULLER].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Sea - Which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed - My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot find, or utter words sufficient to express my sorrow or misery.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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

H3513113× in canon H3220396× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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