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Heavier than the sand of the sea - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of …

Swallowed up. —That is, words are useless and powerless to express it. (See the margin.)

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea
Or "seas" F26 ; all sand is heavy in its own nature,…

Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inner sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolu…

Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes