“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Job 6:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Job 4:5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
  • Job 23:2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
  • Job 31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To know whether I complain without just cause.

To know whether I complain without just cause.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My grief; either,
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,.... Or, "in…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My grief - The cause of my grief. Weighed…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 6:2. O that my grief — The cause…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain First long strophe — JUSTIFICATION BY JOB OF HIS…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. my grief] Rather, my impatience (ch. Job_4:2). The…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain HOMILIES BY W.F. ADENEY Ver. 2. Scales for misery.
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed.

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