Job 6:3

American Standard Version (1901)

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:3 : 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
  • Job 37:19-20 : 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [For] we cannot set [our speech] in order by reason of darkness. 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
  • Ps 77:4 : 4 Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

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