Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
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Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. {complaint: or, meditation}
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou {wilt}.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}
While he {was} yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters {were} eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. {his own...: Heb. the bitterness of his soul}
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}