Devine Scripture

Job 6:3

Job chapter 6 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

Context

v.2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

v.3This passage

v.4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 37:19

    Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

  • Job 23:2

    Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • Matthew 11:28

    Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  • Proverbs 27:3

    A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

  • Psalms 77:4

    Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

  • Psalms 40:5

    Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward: They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.