Job 6:2

Job 6:2 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

2“If only my anguish could be weighed

and all my misery be placed on the scales!

2“Oh if only my grief were actually weighed

And laid in the balances together with my disaster!

2“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed

And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

2“If only my grief could be weighed

and placed with my calamity on the scales.

2Oh that my vexation were but weighed,

And all my calamity laid in the balances!

2Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.

2“Oh that my anguish were weighed,

and all my calamity laid in the balances!

2“I wish my great pain could be weighed!

I wish all my suffering could be weighed on scales!

2‘I am so upset that nobody could measure it!

My problems are too many to weigh!

2“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!