Job 6:2
New Revised Standard Version
“O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Contemporary English Version
It's impossible to weigh my misery and grief!

New American Bible
Ah, could my anguish but be measured and my calamity laid with it in the scales,

Douay-Rheims Bible
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

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O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

throughly.

Job 4:5 But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

Job 23:2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

laid.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
1But Job answered, and said: 2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.3As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:…
Cross References
Job 6:1
But Job answered, and said:

Job 23:2
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Job 31:6
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Job 6:1
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