Catholic Public Domain Version
"I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance."
— Job 6:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!”
“ Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! ”
“"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!”
““Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!”
“O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.”
“If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!”
“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!”
But Job, responding, said:
I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.
Compared to the sand of the sea, they would appear heavier, and so my words are full of sorrow.
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
Will the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or will the ox bellow when he stands before a full manger?