Job 6:3 · KJV
“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 6:3
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
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.
Job 6 — Context
But Job answered and said,
2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
3For 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}
4For 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.
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
Cross References
Proverbs 27:3
A stone {is} heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath {is} heavier than them both. {heavy: Heb. heaviness}
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.
Job 23:2
Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}
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. {they cannot...: or, none can order them unto thee}
Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.