John Trapp on Job 6:2

Verſe 2. O[illegible: 1 letter] that my griefe were throughly weighed] Heb. were weighed by weighing. The word rendred griefe ſignifieth alſo Ang[illegible: 2 letters], and is th[illegible: 1 letter] ſame with that wherewith Eliphaz began his ſpeech, chap. 5.2. where he ſaith, Wrath killeth the fooliſh man, pointing at Job, as an angry man exalting folly. Here therefore Job beginneth his refutation: wiſhing, that that, anger or griefe of his, ſo hardly cenſured, were duely weighed in an even ballance for then it would appeare that there was ſome reaſon for his paſſion, that he had enough upon him to cry for, and that he had not complained without a cauſe. We read of a certaine Philoſopher, who hearing of his ſons death, brake out into a loud lamentation: for which being reproved, Permit[illegible: 3 letters]e, inquit, ut homo ſim, ſuffer me, I pray you, (ſaid he) to ſhew my ſelf to be a man; that is, ſenſible of my ſufferings.

And my calamity laid in the balances together] That is, that my calamity were accurately ſet againſt my grief, my laments and my torments equally poiſed; it would then appear that I have not yet grieved or complained up to the height or weight of thoſe calamities which are upon mee. Even to day is my complaint bitter, (ſaith he elſewhere in anſwer to Eliphaz too, interpreting his complaints to be rebellion againſt God) My ſtroake is heavier the[illegible: 1 letter] my gro[illegible: 1 letter]ning, chap. 23.2.