Job 6:2
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 6:2 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 6:2 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! laid: Heb. lifted up" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 6:2 — KJV
“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! laid: Heb. lifted up”
— Job 6:2 (KJV)
Job 6:2 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 6:2
“And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. subscribed...: Heb. wrote in the book”
Shares key themes with Job 6:2: weighed, balances, heb
“Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. fatted...: Heb. bullocks of the stall”
Shares key themes with Job 6:2: calamity, together, heb
“Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice”
Shares key themes with Job 6:2: weighed, balances, heb
“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning”
Shares key themes with Job 6:2: throughly, heb
“And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.”
Shares key themes with Job 6:2: laid, together
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