Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
Job 6:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- KJV
- Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!laid: Heb. lifted up
- WEB
- “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- ASV
- Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
- LSV
- “O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!
- YLT
- O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
- DBY
- Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- DRC
- O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
- GNV
- Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
- JPS
- Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
- LXXE
- Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
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- Written (Ketiv): וְהַיָּתִי (“and destruction my”). Read aloud (Qere): וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י (“and destruction my”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads וְ֝הַיָּתִ֗י; read aloud (Qere) reads וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י (“and destruction my”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- ל֗וּ שָׁק֣וֹל יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י והיתי בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם יִשְׂאוּ־יָֽחַד׃Read aloud as (qere): וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ γάρ τις ἱστῶν στήσαι μου τὴν ὀργὴν, τὰς δὲ ὀδύνας μου ἄραι ἐν ζυγῷ ὁμοθυμαδὸν,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
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