Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie †layd in the balances together.
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- †Hebrew wordingHeb. lifted vp.
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Job 6:2
Sorrow, pain, distress, anguish, trouble, burden, injury, or the cause of such suffering in mind, body, or spirit.
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Completely, fully, or in every part.
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Sense 1: Measured or ascertained by scales or balance. Sense 2: Figuratively, considered, evaluated, or judged by a standard.
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A grievous event or condition of ruin, disaster, affliction, misery, or destructive trouble.
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Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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1. An instrument with opposing scales for weighing. 2. By figure, the weighing or judging of a person or matter.
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In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
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1BUT Job answered and said,
1¶ But Iob answered, and sayd,
2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
2Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie †layd in the balances together.
Selected passage3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
3For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are †swallowed vp.