Job 6:2

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

““If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.”

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BSBPD

““If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 6:2 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
  2. Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
  3. Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
  4. Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

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