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Job 6:3 — King James Version← Study notes

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.


Job 6:3Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 6:39 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּֽיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
עַתָּ֗הʿatāh
nowadvH6258
now · straightway · this time · whereas
מֵ/ח֣וֹלmēḥwōl
more than the sand ofpronH2344
יַמִּ֣יםyamiym
the seasnounH3220
) · south · west (-ern · side ···
יִכְבָּ֑דyikəbād
it will be heavyverbH3513
more grievously afflict · boast · be chargeable · be dim ···
עַלʿal
there-pronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
כֵּ֝֗ןkēn
-foreparticleH3651
after that (this · -wards) · as... as · asmuch as yet ···
דְּבָרַ֥/יdəbāray
words mynounH1697
advice · affair · answer · any such ···
לָֽעוּlāʿw
they have been rashverbH3886
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 6:3

Oh that my sins were throughly weighed, whereby I have deserted wrath, and the calamity that I suffer laid in the balances. It should be found heavier even as the sand of the sea. 2. Who else is set forth by the title of ‘the balances,’ but the Mediator between God and man, Who came to weigh the merit of our life, and brought down with Him both justice and loving-kindness together? But putting the greater weight in the scale of mercy, He lightened our transgressions in…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 7 §1
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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