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Job 6:2

NETBible	“Oh,¹ if only my grief² could be weighed,³ and my misfortune laid⁴ on the scales too!⁵
NIV © biblegateway Job 6:2	"If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
NASB © biblegateway Job 6:2	"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
NLT © biblegateway Job 6:2	"If my sadness could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales,
MSG © biblegateway Job 6:2	"If my misery could be weighed, if you could pile the whole bitter load on the scales,
BBE © SABDAweb Job 6:2	If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 6:2	"O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
NKJV © biblegateway Job 6:2	"Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!
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KJV	Oh that <03863> my grief <03708> were throughly <08254> (8800) weighed <08254> (8735)_, and my calamity <01942> (8675) <01962> laid <05375> (8799) in the balances <03976> together <03162>_! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
NASB © biblegateway Job 6:2	"Oh <03863> that my grief <03708> were actually <08254> weighed <08254> And laid <05375> in the balances <03976> together <03162> with my calamity <01942> !
LXXM	ei <1487> CONJ gar <1063> PRT tiv <5100> I-NSM istwn <2476> V-PAPNS sthsai <2476> V-AAO-3S mou <1473> P-GS thn <3588> T-ASF orghn <3709> N-ASF tav <3588> T-APF de <1161> PRT odunav <3601> N-APF mou <1473> P-GS arai <142> V-AAN en <1722> PREP zugw <2218> N-DSM omoyumadon <3661> ADV
NET [draft] ITL	“Oh <03863> , if only my grief <03708> could be weighed <08254> <08254> , and my misfortune <01962> laid <05375> on the scales <03976> too <03162> !
HEBREW	dxy <03162> wavy <05375> Mynzamb <03976> *ytwhw {ytyhw} <01962> yvek <03708> lqsy <08254> lwqs <08254> wl (6:2) <03863>

NETBible

“Oh,¹ if only my grief² could be weighed,³ and my misfortune laid⁴ on the scales too!⁵

NET Notes

¹tn The conjunction לוּ (lu, “if, if only”) introduces the wish – an unrealizable wish – with the Niphal imperfect.

²tn Job pairs כַּעְסִי (ka’si, “my grief”) and הַיָּתִי (hayyati, “my misfortune”). The first word, used in Job 4:2, refers to Job’s whole demeanor that he shows his friends – the impatient and vexed expression of his grief. The second word expresses his misfortune, the cause of his grief. Job wants these placed together in the balances so that his friends could see the misfortune is greater than the grief. The word for “misfortune” is a Kethib-Qere reading. The two words have essentially the same meaning; they derive from the verb הָוַה (havah, “to fall”) and so mean a misfortune.

³tn The Qal infinitive absolute is here used to intensify the Niphal imperfect (see GKC 344-45 §113.w). The infinitive absolute intensifies the wish as well as the idea of weighing.

⁴tn The third person plural verb is used here; it expresses an indefinite subject and is treated as a passive (see GKC 460 §144.g).

⁵tn The adverb normally means “together,” but it can also mean “similarly, too.” In this verse it may not mean that the two things are to be weighed together, but that the whole calamity should be put on the scales (see A. B. Davidson, Job, 43).