
Text -- Job 6:2 (NET)




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The cause of my grief.

Wesley: Job 6:2 - -- 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 comp...
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 complaints.

Together with any other most heavy thing to be put into the other scale.
JFB -> Job 6:2
JFB: Job 6:2 - -- Oh, that instead of censuring my complaints when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized with me, thou wouldst accurately compare my sorrow, and my m...
Oh, that instead of censuring my complaints when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized with me, thou wouldst accurately compare my sorrow, and my misfortunes; these latter "outweigh in the balance" the former.
Clarke -> Job 6:2
Clarke: Job 6:2 - -- O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved...
O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his sufferings; and if this could not be done, he wished that his sufferings and his complainings might be weighed together; and it would then be seen that, bitter as his complaint had been, it was little when compared with the distress which occasioned it.
TSK -> Job 6:2

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Barnes -> Job 6:2
Barnes: Job 6:2 - -- O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word rendered "grief"here ( כעשׂ ka‛aś ) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief; Ec...
O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word rendered "grief"here (
Laid in the balances - Margin, "lifted up."That is, raised up and put in the scales, or put in the scales and then raised up - as is common in weighing.
Together -
Poole -> Job 6:2
Poole: Job 6:2 - -- 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 thi...
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 here repeated in differing words. Or,
2. My sorrow; or, my wrath , or rage , as thou didst call it, Job 5:2 . So his wish is, that his sorrow or wrath were laid in one scale of the balances, and his
calamity in the other, that so it might be known whether his sorrow or wrath was greater than his misery, as was pretended.
Were throughly weighed were fully understood and duly considered. Thy harsh rebukes and censures of my impatience, and hypocrisy, and wickedness, proceedeth from thy ignorance or insensibleness of my insupportable calamities. I desire no favour from thee. But oh that I had a just and equal judge, that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not just cause for such bitter complaints; or, at least, whether the greatness of my burden should not procure some allowance to my infirmity, if I should speak something indecently and unadvisedly, and protect me from such severe censures!
Laid in the balances together either,
1. Together with my grief ; or rather,
2. Together with any the most heavy thing to be put into the other scale, as with the sand, &c., as is expressed in the next verse; where also the particle it , being of the singular number, showeth that there was but one thing to be weighed with the sand.
Haydock -> Job 6:2
Haydock: Job 6:2 - -- My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real sins; but with the imaginary crimes which his frien...
My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real sins; but with the imaginary crimes which his friends falsely imputed to him: and especially with his wrath or grief, expressed in the third chapter, which they so much accused. Though, as he tells them here, it bore no proportion with the greatness of his calamity. (Challoner) ---
Job does not deny but he may have transgressed. (Calmet) See chap. vii. 20. ---
But his is not conscious of any mortal offence; such as his friends insisted he must have committed, as he was so cruelly tormented. (Haydock) ---
Some deny canonical authority to the words of Job, because God reprehended him. But St. Gregory (Mor. vii.) says, Ab æterno judice casurus laudari non potuit. (Du Hamel) ---
"The man who was on the point of falling, could not be praised by the eternal Judge;" (Haydock) and it seems to be a mistake that Job erred, (Houbigant) though asserted by many. See Calmet; Worthington, &c. ---
Wrath. Hebrew, "O that my grief (Haydock; or complaints. Calmet) were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together." (Protestants) (Haydock) ---
A just man confesses his own sins, but not those which are wrongfully laid to his charge. (Worthington)
Gill -> Job 6:2
Gill: Job 6:2 - -- Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which ca...
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 shown in words and gestures; or his "wrath" and "anger" w, as others render it: not his anger against Eliphaz, as Sephorno, but as before, meaning the same thing, his affliction; which either, as he understood, was the fruit and effect of the wrath and anger of God, who treated him as an enemy; or rather, that wrath, anger, and resentment raised in his own mind by those afflictive providences, and which broke out in hot and passionate expressions, and for which he was blamed as a foolish man, Job 5:2; or else the "complaint" x, the groans and moans he made under them; or the "impatience" y he was charged with in bearing of them; and now he wishes, and suggests, that if they were well weighed and considered by kind and judicious persons, men of moderation and temper, a great allowance would be made for them, and they would easily be excused; that is, if, together with his expressions of grief, anger, and impatience, his great afflictions, the cause of them, were but looked into, and carefully examined, as follows:
and my calamity laid in the balances together! that is, his affliction, which had a being, as the word signifies, as Aben Ezra observes, was not through the prepossessions of fear as before, nor merely in fancy as in many, or as exaggerated, and made greater than it is, which is often the case; but what was real and true, and matter of fact; it was what befell him, had happened to him, not by chance, but by the appointment and providence of God; and includes all his misfortunes, the loss of his cattle, servants, and children, and of his own health; and now to be added to them, the unkindness of his friends; and his desire is, that these might be taken up, and put together in the scales, and being put there, that the balances might be lifted up at once, and the true weight of them taken; and the meaning is, either that all his excessive grief, and passionate words, and extravagant and unwarrantable impatience, as they were judged, might be put into one scale, and all his afflictions in another, and then it would be seen which were heaviest, and what reason there was for the former, and what little reason there was to blame him on that account; or however, he might be excused, and not be bore hard upon, as he was; to this sense his words incline in Job 23:2; or else by his grief and calamity he means the same thing, his grievous afflictions, which he would have put together in a pair of balances, and weighed against anything that was ever so heavy, and then they would appear to be as is expressed in Job 6:3; Job by all this seems desirous to have his case thoroughly canvassed, and his conduct thoroughly examined into, and to be well weighed and pondered in the scale of right reason and sound judgment, by men of equal and impartial characters; but he tacitly suggests that his friends were not such, and therefore wishes that some third person, or other persons, would undertake this affair.

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NET Notes: Job 6:2 The adverb normally means “together,” but it can also mean “similarly, too.” In this verse it may not mean that the two things...
Geneva Bible -> Job 6:2
Geneva Bible: Job 6:2 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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TSK Synopsis -> Job 6:1-30
TSK Synopsis: Job 6:1-30 - --1 Job shews that his complaints are not causeless.8 He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort.14 He reproves his friends of unkindness.
MHCC -> Job 6:1-7
MHCC: Job 6:1-7 - --Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resoluti...
Matthew Henry -> Job 6:1-7
Matthew Henry: Job 6:1-7 - -- Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard h...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Job 6:1-4
Keil-Delitzsch: Job 6:1-4 - --
1 Then began Job, and said:
2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed,
And they would put my suffering in the balance against it!
3 Then it would b...
Constable: Job 4:1--14:22 - --B. The First Cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 4-14
The two soliloquies of Job (c...

Constable: Job 6:1--7:21 - --2. Job's first reply to Eliphaz chs. 6-7
Job began not with a direct reply to Eliphaz but with a...
