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"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
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A Cry to Be Understood
Job feels his friends have judged him without grasping the true weight of his suffering. Commentators explain that his request to have his calamity 'weighed' is a desperate plea for accurate assessment and empathy. He believes that if his friends could see the full extent of his pain, they would understand his anguished words instead of condemning them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - The word translated “grief” here (כעשׂ ka‛aś) can mean either vexation, t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed Or, "in weighing weighed" F21 , most nicely and exactly weighed;…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…
