Job 6:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
"If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!

New Living Translation
“If my misery could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales,

English Standard Version
“Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Berean Study Bible
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

New American Standard Bible
“Oh if only my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my disaster!

NASB 1995
"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

NASB 1977
“Oh that my vexation were actually weighed, And laid in the balances together with my iniquity!

Amplified Bible
“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]!

Christian Standard Bible
If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it on the scales.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it in the scales.

Contemporary English Version
It's impossible to weigh my misery and grief!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If only my grief could be weighed, if only my misery could be laid on the scales with it,

International Standard Version
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!

NET Bible
"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

New King James Version
“Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!

King James 2000 Bible
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

New Heart English Bible
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances.

World English Bible
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

American King James Version
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

American Standard Version
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

A Faithful Version
"Oh, that my grief were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Darby Bible Translation
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

English Revised Version
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Webster's Bible Translation
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, "" And my calamity in balances "" They would lift up together!

Young's Literal Translation
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

Smith's Literal Translation
I would weighing, my anger shall be weighed, and my falls shall be lifted up in the balances together.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Oh, but that my anger were weighed and a piece of my mind in a scale together

Lamsa Bible
Oh that my grief were weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances against it!

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
















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