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Job 6:2

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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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  1. Job 23:2Rank 1 from verse 2
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    2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  2. Job 31:6Rank 2 from verse 2
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    6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  3. Job 4:5Rank 3 from verse 2
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    5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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Job 6:2

COMBINED MEANING

grief

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Sorrow, pain, distress, anguish, trouble, burden, injury, or the cause of such suffering in mind, body, or spirit.

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COMBINED MEANING

weighed

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Sense 1: Measured or ascertained by scales or balance. Sense 2: Figuratively, considered, evaluated, or judged by a standard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

calamity

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A grievous event or condition of ruin, disaster, affliction, misery, or destructive trouble.

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laid

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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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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balances

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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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6:1BUT Job answered and said,

6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

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