Job 6:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 4:5
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

FIRST SERIES CONTINUED. Job 6:1-30. Reply of Job to Eliphaz. 2. throughly weighed--Oh, that instead of censuring my complaints when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized with me, thou wouldst accurately compare my sorrow, and my misfortunes; these latter “outweigh in the balance” the former.