"Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}" — Job 6:2

Job 6:2 · KJV

“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}”

— Job 6:2

But Job answered and said,

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words...: that is, I want words to express my grief}

Job 6 — Context

But Job answered and said,

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words...: that is, I want words to express my grief}

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Cross References

Job 4:5

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}

Job 23:2

Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}