ל֗וּ שָׁק֣וֹל יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י והיתי וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם יִשְׂאוּ יָֽחַד
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
World English Bible · Public Domain
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
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"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
“If only my anguish, being weighed, were weighed, and my calamity lay in the balances together!
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"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
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 vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!
“Oh, if only my anguish were weighed; if only all my calamity were laid in the balance!
“If only my anguish, being weighed, were weighed, and my calamity lay in the balances together!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
“If my grief could be weighed and my troubles placed on the scales
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
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1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם scales H3976 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 21 words vs World English Bible 14. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ל֗וּ שָׁק֣וֹל יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י והיתי וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י בְּֽמֹאזְנַ֥יִם יִשְׂאוּ יָֽחַד
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
World English Bible · Public Domain
εἰ γάρ τις ἵστημι ἵστημι ἐγώ ὁ ὀργή ὁ δέ ὀδύνη ἐγώ αἴρω ἐν ζυγός ὁμοθυμαδόν
Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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Job, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is hayâh (“destruction”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Job 6:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Biblical Illustrator
Joseph S. Exell
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.