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2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Job 6:2

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

  • Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire. But, when he had concluded, he makes his reply, in which he speaks very feelingly. I. He represents his ca…

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