Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. Heavier than the sand of the sea - This includes two ideas: their number was too great to be counted; their weight was too great to be estimated.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Heavier than the sand of the sea - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of his s...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (b) swallowed up. (b) My grief is so great that I lack words to express...
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 impatien...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. The sand. "The sand is weighty" ( Proverbs 27:3 )....
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 j...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Are swallowed up] RV 'have been rash.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Swallowed up. — That is. words are useless and powerless to express it. (See the margin.)
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 hea...
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 ra...
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 d...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea ,.... Or "seas" z; all sand is heavy in its own nature, Proverbs 27:3 ; especially the sand of...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. Ver. 3. For now it would be heavier than the sand of th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For now it That is, my grief or calamity; would be heavier than the sand of the sea Which is much heavier than dry sand. Therefore my words are...
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 s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It would be heavier, i.e. my grief or calamity, than the sand of the sea, which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed up, as this verb is used,...
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 apprehende...
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...
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 th...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea, his woe was heavy beyond measure; therefore my words are swallowed up, rather, "they raved,"...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 37:19 ; Job 37:20 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Proverbs 27:3 ; Psalms 40:5 ; Psalms 77:4
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sea — Which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed — My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot find, or utter words sufficient to express my sorrow or mis...

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wordsb are swallowed up.

Related Commentaries of Job 6:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 6:3