Job 6:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:3 : 3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
  • Job 37:19-20 : 19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark. 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.
  • Ps 77:4 : 4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

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    1 And Job made answer and said,

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  • Job 3:24-25
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  • Job 6:7-11
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    7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

    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.

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  • Job 19:23
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    23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

  • Job 30:16
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    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Job 37:20
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    20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 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 19:6
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    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

  • Job 30:19
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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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

  • Job 23:2
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    2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

  • Lam 3:16-18
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    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

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

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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • Job 9:18
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    18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • Job 31:23
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    23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

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    3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

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    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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    53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

    54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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    18 For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

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    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

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

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    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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    6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

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    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,

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    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.