Job 6:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:5 : 5 But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 6:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

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

    4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • Job 23:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 Then Job answered,

    2 "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

  • 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

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

    10 Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

  • 11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • 23 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

  • Job 34:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

    6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

  • Job 31:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!

    36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.

  • Job 16:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

    7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

  • Job 29:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

    2 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

  • Job 27:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

    2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

  • 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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

  • 2 "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

  • 12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.

  • 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

  • Job 19:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

    6 Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

    7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

  • 2 Job answered:

  • 7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 1 "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • 22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.

  • 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

  • 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!