Add parallel Print Page Options

Job replies to Eliphaz[a]

Then Job replied:

‘I am so upset that nobody could measure it!
    My problems are too many to weigh!
They are heavier than all the sand on the shore of the sea.
    That is why I did not think carefully before I spoke.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 6:1 Job tells Eliphaz that he wants to know the reason for his trouble. He is not a bad person who has done wrong things. His friends have not helped him to understand why God has punished him like this.

Job

Then Job replied:

“If only my anguish could be weighed
    and all my misery be placed on the scales!(A)
It would surely outweigh the sand(B) of the seas—
    no wonder my words have been impetuous.(C)

Read full chapter