Job 6:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laida in the balances together! ”

• Job 6:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word rendered “grief” here ( כעשׂ ka‛aś ) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief; Ecclesiastes 1:18 ; Ecclesiastes 2:23 ; or it may mean anger...

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• Job 6:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (a) balances together! (a To know whether I complain without just cause.

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• Job 6:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...

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• Job 6:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Oh. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6. my grief: i.e. the cause of my grief.

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• Job 6:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing t...

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• Job 6:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed— Heath, after Schultens, renders this verse, Would to God my impatience were thoroughly weighed, and that they would in like manner poise my calamities in t...

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• Job 6:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Throughly weighed. Oh that, instead of censuring my complaints, when thou oughtest rather to have sympa...

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• Job 6:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness...

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• Job 6:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...

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• Job 6:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...

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• Job 6:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...

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• Job 6:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wo...

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• Job 6:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed ,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been...

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• Job 6:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Ver. 2. Oh that my grief were throughly weighed ] Heb. Were weighed by weighing. The word rendered grief sig...

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• Job 6:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O that my grief The cause of my grief; were thoroughly weighed Were fully understood and duly considered! O that I had an impartial judge! that would understand my case, and see whether I have no...

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• Job 6:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz...

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• Job 6:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 But Job answered and said,   2 Oh that my grief we...

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• Job 6:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  My grief; either, 1. My calamity, as it follows, or the cause or matter of my grief; the act being put for the object, as is usual, fear for the thing feared , &c., and the same thing being...

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• Job 6:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...

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• Job 6:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...

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• Job 6:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...

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• Job 6:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...

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• Job 6:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Defends his Desire for Death

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• Job 6:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 23:2 ; Job 4:5

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• Job 6:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  My grief — The cause of my grief. Weighed — Were fully understood, and duly considered. O that I had an equal judge! that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not cause for complai...

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