Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word translated “grief” here (כעשׂ ka‛aś) can mean either vexation, t…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed
Or, "in weighing weighed" F21 , most nicely and exactly weighed;…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

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…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

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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