the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Job 6:2
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If only my grief could be weighedand my devastation placed with it on the scales.
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
"Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
"I wish my suffering could be weighed and my misery put on scales.
"Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!
"Oh if only my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my disaster!
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
"Oh that my vexation were actually weighedAnd laid in the balances together with my destruction!
"If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
It's impossible to weigh my misery and grief!
"I wish my frustration could be weighed, all my calamities laid on the scales!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
"I wish my suffering could be weighed and all my trouble be put on the scales.
Oh that my grief were weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances against it!
"If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances,
Oh that my vexation were carefully weighed, and my ruin lifted in the balances together!
O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces:
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together:
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.
Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Y wolde, that my synnes, bi whiche Y `desseruede ire, and the wretchidnesse which Y suffre, weren peisid in a balaunce.
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
"Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!
"If my misery could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales,
"If only my trials and troubles were weighed!
"O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
"O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thoroughly: Job 4:5, Job 23:2
laid: Heb. lifted up
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:16 - out of Job 1:18 - there came Job 3:10 - hid Job 10:1 - I will speak Job 15:24 - anguish Job 16:4 - if your soul Psalms 88:3 - soul Proverbs 14:10 - heart Matthew 26:38 - My
Cross-References
When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord .
When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.
So the Lord said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."
But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord .
God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been shown in words and gestures; or his "wrath" and "anger" w, as others render it: not his anger against Eliphaz, as Sephorno, but as before, meaning the same thing, his affliction; which either, as he understood, was the fruit and effect of the wrath and anger of God, who treated him as an enemy; or rather, that wrath, anger, and resentment raised in his own mind by those afflictive providences, and which broke out in hot and passionate expressions, and for which he was blamed as a foolish man, Job 5:2; or else the "complaint" x, the groans and moans he made under them; or the "impatience" y he was charged with in bearing of them; and now he wishes, and suggests, that if they were well weighed and considered by kind and judicious persons, men of moderation and temper, a great allowance would be made for them, and they would easily be excused; that is, if, together with his expressions of grief, anger, and impatience, his great afflictions, the cause of them, were but looked into, and carefully examined, as follows:
and my calamity laid in the balances together! that is, his affliction, which had a being, as the word signifies, as Aben Ezra observes, was not through the prepossessions of fear as before, nor merely in fancy as in many, or as exaggerated, and made greater than it is, which is often the case; but what was real and true, and matter of fact; it was what befell him, had happened to him, not by chance, but by the appointment and providence of God; and includes all his misfortunes, the loss of his cattle, servants, and children, and of his own health; and now to be added to them, the unkindness of his friends; and his desire is, that these might be taken up, and put together in the scales, and being put there, that the balances might be lifted up at once, and the true weight of them taken; and the meaning is, either that all his excessive grief, and passionate words, and extravagant and unwarrantable impatience, as they were judged, might be put into one scale, and all his afflictions in another, and then it would be seen which were heaviest, and what reason there was for the former, and what little reason there was to blame him on that account; or however, he might be excused, and not be bore hard upon, as he was; to this sense his words incline in Job 23:2; or else by his grief and calamity he means the same thing, his grievous afflictions, which he would have put together in a pair of balances, and weighed against anything that was ever so heavy, and then they would appear to be as is expressed in Job 6:3; Job by all this seems desirous to have his case thoroughly canvassed, and his conduct thoroughly examined into, and to be well weighed and pondered in the scale of right reason and sound judgment, by men of equal and impartial characters; but he tacitly suggests that his friends were not such, and therefore wishes that some third person, or other persons, would undertake this affair.
u שקול ישקל "librando, libraretur", Cocceius, Schultens. w כעשי "ira mea", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Schmidt, &c. so the Targum and Sept. x "Querela mea", Vatablus, Mercerus. y "Impatientia", Belgae, Castalio.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word rendered “grief” here (כעשׂ ka‛aś) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief; Ecclesiastes 1:18; Ecclesiastes 2:23; or it may mean anger; Deuteronomy 32:19; Ezekiel 20:28. It is rendered by the Septuagint here, ὀργή orgē - anger; by Jerome, peccata - sins. The sense of the whole passage may either be, that Job wished his anger or his complaints to be laid in the balance with his calamity, to see if one was more weighty than the other - meaning that he had not complained unreasonably or unjustly (Rosenmuller); or that he wished that his afflictions might be put into one scale and the sands of the sea into another, and the one weighed against the other (Noyes); or simply, that he desired that his sorrows should be accurately estimated. This latter is, I think, the true sense of the passage. He supposed his friends had not understood and appreciated his sufferings; that they were disposed to blame him without understanding the extent of his sorrows, and he desires that they would estimate them aright before they condemned him. In particular, he seems to have supposed that Eliphaz had not done justice to the depth of his sorrows in the remarks which he had just made. The figure of weighing actions or sorrows, is not uncommon or unnatural. It means to take an exact estimate of their amount. So we speak of heavy calamities, of afflictions that crush us by their weight. etc.
Laid in the balances - Margin, “lifted up.” That is, raised up and put in the scales, or put in the scales and then raised up - as is common in weighing.
Together - יחד yachad. At the same time; that all my sorrows, griefs, and woes, were piled on the scales, and then weighed. He supposed that only a partial estimate had been formed of the extent of his calamities.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:2. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed — Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his sufferings; and if this could not be done, he wished that his sufferings and his complainings might be weighed together; and it would then be seen that, bitter as his complaint had been, it was little when compared with the distress which occasioned it.
