Job 6:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:5 : 5 But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

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    1Then Job answered and said,

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    11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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