Job 6:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:5 : 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: 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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  • Job 6:3-4
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    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

    4For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • 1¶ But Job answered and said,

  • Job 23:1-3
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    1¶ Then Job answered and said,

    2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

    3Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

  • 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Job 6:8-11
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    8¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 11Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

  • 23¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

  • Job 34:5-6
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    5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

    6Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

  • Job 31:35-36
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    35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

    36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

  • Job 16:6-7
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    6¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

    7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • Job 29:1-2
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    1¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

    2Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

    2[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

  • 36My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

  • 17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

  • 4As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 13[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

  • 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • 12¶ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

  • 18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • Job 19:5-7
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    5If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

    6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.

  • 6Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

  • 2And Job spake, and said,

  • 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 20[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 1¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 1¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • 19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

  • 5I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

  • 8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!