Job 6:2 Meaning and Explanation
“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Job 6:2 Mean?
Job pictures an ancient merchant's balance, the kind used to weigh silver or grain. He wishes his grief and his disaster could be set together on such scales, so their true heaviness might be seen by all.
Beneath the image is a plea every sufferer understands: to be taken seriously. Job senses his friends have underestimated his pain. The Lord is the one who weighs hearts and burdens with perfect justice, and we may bring Him sorrows too heavy for any human scale to register.
Job 6:2 in the Original Language
shoqel (שֹׁקֵל), 'weighed' -- to weigh out on a balance, the same act used for measuring silver in a trade.
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What does Job 6:2 mean?
Job longs for his anguish to be measured fairly, weighed on a true scale rather than dismissed.