Job 6:3 BSB — MannaFest

Job 6:3

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Heavier than the sand of the sea - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of his sorrows. A comparison somewhat similar is found in Pro 27:3. Heavy is a stone, and weighty the sand of the Sea, But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. My words are swallowed up - Margin, “I want words to express my grief.” This expresses the true sense - but not with the same poetic beauty.

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

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עַתָּ֗ה	'a.Tah	now	H6258 →
מֵח֣וֹל	me.Chol	more than [the] sand of	H2344 →
יַמִּ֣ים	ya.Mim	[the] seas	H3220 →
יִכְבָּ֑ד	yikh.Bad	it will be heavy	H3513 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֝֗ן	Ken	-fore	H3651 →
דְּבָרַ֥י	de.va.Rai	words my	H1697 →
לָֽעוּ׃	La.'u	they have been rash	H3886 →

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
Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
leads to
- Matthew 11:29
  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- John 6:37
  Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- Galatians 5:1
  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- Isaiah 55:1–3
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Through
Psalms 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I…
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:11
  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
- Exodus 15:11
  Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Psalms 139:17–18
  How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

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