King James Version
Job 6:3 in the King James Version says “For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. my words: that is, I want wor...” — study this verse from Job chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. my words: that is, I want words to express my grief”
Job 6:3 · KJV
But Job answered and said,
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! laid: Heb. lifted up
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. my words: that is, I want words to express my grief
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? when he: Heb. at grass?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“of the sea”
H3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the mediterranean sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif
“For now it would be heavier”
H3513to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“therefore my words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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