Job 6:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:5 : 5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

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  • Job 6:3-4
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    3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

    4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 23:1-3
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    1 And Job made answer and said,

    2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

    3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

  • 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

  • Job 6:8-11
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    8 If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • 23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

  • Job 34:5-6
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    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

    6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • Job 31:35-36
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    35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

    36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

  • Job 16:6-7
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    6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Job 29:1-2
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    1 And Job again took up the word and said,

    2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 And Job again took up the word and said,

    2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

  • 36 May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • 19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • 2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

  • 12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

  • 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

  • Job 19:5-7
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

  • 2 Job made answer and said,

  • 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • 1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

  • 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • 22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

  • 5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

  • 8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!