Job 6:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² “O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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]!

American Standard Version (1901)

² Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

Common English Bible

² Oh, that my grief were actually weighed, all of it were lifted up in scales;

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.

Job 6:2 Cross References

Job 31:6

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

Job 23:2

“Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Job 4:5

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

Job 6:1

Then Job answered:

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.