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Job 6:3
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For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas!That is why my words are rash.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
My sadness would be heavier than the sand of the seas. No wonder my words seem careless.
But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; Therefore my words have been incoherent,
"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; For that reason my words have been rash.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.
For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are swallowed vp.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;Therefore my words have been rash.
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas-no wonder my words have been rash.
They outweigh the sand along the beach, and that's why I have spoken without thinking first.
They would outweigh the sands of the seas! No wonder, then, that my words come out stammered!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.
They would be heavier than all the sand of the sea! That is why my words are so crazy.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are restrained.
for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; on account of this my words have been rash.
for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore are my words broken.
For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed vp.
And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: therefore have my words been rash.
As the grauel of the see, this wretchidnesse schulde appere greuousere; wherfor and my wordis ben ful of sorewe.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore my words have been rash.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea-- Therefore my words have been rash.
they would outweigh all the sands of the sea. That is why I spoke impulsively.
They would weigh more than the sand of the seas. My words have been spoken fast and without thought.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.
As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; Therefore my words have been rash.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heavier: Proverbs 27:3, Matthew 11:28
my words are swallowed up: that is, I want words to express my grief, Job 37:19, Job 37:20, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 77:4
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:16 - out of Job 1:18 - there came Job 3:10 - hid Psalms 21:9 - the Lord
Cross-References
When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,
God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.
Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.
Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side.
but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit I have given you and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people, and you will not have to bear it alone.
Year after year you patiently warned them. You inspired your prophets to speak, but your people were deaf, so you let them be conquered by other nations.
He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.
Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea,.... Or "seas" z; all sand is heavy in its own nature, Proverbs 27:3; especially the sand of the sea, that which is immediately taken out of it; for that on the shore is lighter, being dried by the winds and heat of the sun, but the other is heavier, through the additional weight of water; and much more especially how heavy must all the sand of the sea be, and of all the seas that are in the world: yet Job suggests by this hyperbolical expression, exaggerating his case, that his affliction was heavier than it all, a most intolerable and insupportable burden; the afflictions of God's people are but light when compared with what their sins deserve, with the torments of the damned in hell, with the sufferings of Christ in their room and stead, and with everlasting, happiness, the eternal weight of glory, 2 Corinthians 4:17; but in themselves they are heavy, and press hard; they are so to flesh and blood, and especially unless everlasting arms are put under men, and they are supported and upheld with the right hand of God's righteousness; they are heavy when attended with the hidings of God's face, and a sense of his wrath and displeasure, which was Job's case, see Job 13:24; some render "it more copious", or "numerous" a, and indeed the word has this signification, as in Numbers 20:20; and the metaphor is more frequently used to express a multitude, even what is innumerable, Hosea 1:10; yet the notion of heaviness best agrees with the preceding figure of weighing in balances, and therefore at least is not to be excluded some learned men take in both, as the sense of the word, the number of afflictions, and the bulk and weight of them:
therefore my words are swallowed up; either by his friends, as Kimchi, who heard them, and put a wrong construction on them, without thoroughly examining the true sense of them; as men that swallow down their food greedily, do not chew it, nor take the true taste of it, and so are no judges whether it is good or bad; but this sense seems to have no connection with what goes before; rather they were swallowed up by himself, and the meaning either is, that such was the weight and pressure of his afflictions, that he wanted words to express it; his words "failed" him, as the Targum: or they "come short", as Mr. Broughton renders it; they were not sufficient to set forth and declare the greatness of his troubles; or he faltered in his speech, he could not speak out plainly and distinctly, because of his grief and sorrow, see Psalms 77:4; what he had said was delivered amidst sighs and sobs, through the heaviness of the calamity on him; they were but half words, attended with groanings that could not be uttered; by which he would signify, that though his friends had charged him with speaking too much and too freely, he had not spoken enough, nor could he, by reason of the greatness of his affliction; and also to excuse his present answer, if it was not delivered with that politeness and fulness of expression, with that eloquence and strength of reasoning and discoursing he at other times was capable of: or rather the words may be rendered, "therefore my words break out with heat" b; in a vehement manner, in a hot and passionate way I am blamed for; but this is to be imputed to the burden of affliction and sorrow upon me, which, if considered, some allowances would be made, and the charge be alleviated.
z ימים "marium", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens. a יכבד "copiosior et gravior est", Michaelis; so Schultens. b על-כן דברי לעו "propterea verba mea aestuantia sunt", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Heavier than the sand of the sea - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of his sorrows. A comparison somewhat similar is found in Proverbs 27:3.
Heavy is a stone, and weighty the sand of the Sea,
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
My words are swallowed up - Margin, “I want words to express my grief.” This expresses the true sense - but not with the same poetic beauty. We express the same idea when we say that we are choked with grief; we are so overwhelmed with sorrow that we cannot speak. Any very deep emotion prevents the power of utterance. So in Psalms 77:4 :
Thou holdest mine eyes waking:
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
So the well-known expressions in Virgil,
Obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.
There has been, however, considerable variety in the interpretation of the word here rendered swallowed up - לוּע lûa‛. Gesenius supposes that it means to speak rashly, to talk at random, and that the idea is, that Job now admits that his remarks had been unguarded - “therefore were my words rash.” The same sense Castell gives to the Arabic word. Schultens renders it, “therefore are my words tempestuous or fretful.” Rosenmuller, “my words exceed due moderation.” Castellio, “my words fail.” Luther, “therefore it is vain that I speak.” The Septuagint, “but my words seem to be evil.” Jerome, “my words are full of grief.” In this variety it is difficult to determine the meaning; but probably the old interpretation is to be retained, by which the word is derived from לוּע lûa‛, to absorb, to swallow up; compare Proverbs 20:25; Obadiah 1:16; Job 39:30; Proverbs 23:2. The word does not elsewhere occur.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:3. Heavier than the sand of the sea — This includes two ideas: their number was too great to be counted; their weight was too great to be estimated.
