Job 6:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Oh that my grief were weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances against it!
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! |
Oh that
3863 {3863} Primeלוּאluw'{loo}
A conditional particle; if; by implication (interjectionally as a wish) would that!.
my grief
3708
were throughly
y8254 [8254] Standardשָׁקַלshaqal{shaw-kal'}
A primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade).
z8800 <8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 4888
weighed,
8254 {8254} Primeשָׁקַלshaqal{shaw-kal'}
A primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade).
z8735 <8735> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 1602
and my calamity
1942 {1942} Primeהַוָּהhavvah{hav-vaw'}
From H1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication of falling); desire; also ruin.
z8675 <8675> Grammar
Kethiv Reading
Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the qere reading rather than the kethiv.
y1962 [1962] Standardהַיָּהhayah{hah-yaw'}
Another form for H1943; ruin.
laid
5375 {5375} Primeנָשָׂאnasa'{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
in the balances
3976 {3976} Primeמֹאזֵןmo'zen{mo-zane'}
From H0239; (only in the dual) a pair of scales.
together!
3162 {3162} Primeיַחַדyachad{yakh'-ad}
From H3161; properly a unit, that is, (adverbially) unitedly. |
Job 6:2
_ _ throughly weighed — Oh, that instead of censuring my complaints when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized with me, thou wouldst accurately compare my sorrow, and my misfortunes; these latter “outweigh in the balance” the former. |
Job 6:2
My grief — The cause of my grief. Weighed — Were fully understood, and duly considered. O that I had an equal judge! that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not cause for complaints. Together — Together with any other most heavy thing to be put into the other scale. |
Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (a) balances together!
(a) To know whether I complain without just cause. |
- thoroughly:
Job 4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 23:2 Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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