Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 6:2

2. Oh that my grief were throughly weighed , and my calamity laid in the ballances together !

Either 1. my calamity, as it follows, or the cause or matter of my grief: The act being put for the object, as is usual, fear for the thing feared, &c. and the same thing being here repeated in differing words. Or 2. My sorrow: or my wrath or rage, as thou didst call it, Ch. 5. 2. So his wish is, that his sorrow or wrath, were laid in one Scale of the ballances, and his calamity in the other, that so it might be known whether his sorrow or wrath was greater than his misery, as was pretended.

Were fully understood & duely considered. Thy harsh rebukes and censures of my impatience, and hypocrisy and [illegible: 1+ letters]ickedness proceedeth from thy ignorance or unsensibleness of my insupportable calamities. I desire no favour from thee: But O that I had a just and equal Judge that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not just cause for such bitter complaints: Or, at least, whether the greatness of my Burden should not procure some allowance to my infirmity, if I should speak something indecently and unadvisedly, and protect me from such severe censures.

Either 1. together with my grief▪ or rather, 2. together with any the most heavy thing to be put into the other scale, as with the sand, &c. as is expressed in the next verse; where also the particle it, bei[illegible: 1+ letters] of the singular number, sheweth that there was but one thing to be weighed with the sand.

Marginal references: Heb. lifted up.