Job 6:2

King James Version (KJV)

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

Translations

Job 6:2 - Amplified Bible

Oh, that my impatience {and} vexation might be [thoroughly] weighed and all my calamity be laid up over against them in the balances, one against the other [to see if my grief is unmanly]!

Job 6:2 - American Standard Version

Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 6:2 - Bible in Basic English

If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

Job 6:2 - Darby Bible

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 6:2 - English Standard Version

"Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 6:2 - King James Version

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

Job 6:2 - La Biblia de las Americas

¡Oh, si pudiera pesarse mi sufrimiento,
y ponerse en la balanza junto con mi calamidad!

Job 6:2 - The Message

Job 6:2 - New American Standard Bible

"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

Job 6:2 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

"¡Oh, si pudiera pesarse mi sufrimiento,
Y ponerse en la balanza junto con mi calamidad!

Job 6:2 - World English Bible

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

Job 6:2 - Young's Living Translation

O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

Job 6:2 - Additional Comments

Job is describing the weight of his pain - if it could be measured it would be heavier than the sands of the sea (vs 3). Job tells that this heavy load is bears is why his words have been so rash (ch 3), where he wishes he had never been born.

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