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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

But Job answered:

“Oh, that my grief were fully weighed,
    and my calamity laid with it on the scales!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
    therefore my words are stuck in my throat.

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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)

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