Job 6:2

"Then Job answered,"

Key Reflection

In Job 6:2, "Then Job answered," indicates Job's persistent defense and protest against his circumstances, showing his frustration and desire for understanding despite his friends' counsel. This moment sets the stage for Job to continue articulating his anguish, highlighting his struggle with divine justice and his quest for clarity amidst suffering.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

O that my grief were thoroughly weighed -The word rendered “grief” here (כעשׂka‛aś) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief;Ecclesiastes 1:18;Ecclesiastes 2:23; or it may mean anger;Deuteronomy 32:19;Ezekiel 20:28. It is rendered by the Septuagint here,ὀργήorgē- anger; by Jerome, peccata - sins. The sense of the whole passage may either be, that Job wished his anger or his complaints to be laid in the balance with his calamity, to see if one was more weighty than the other - meaning that he had not complained unreasonably or unjustly (Rosenmuller); or that he wished that his afflictions m

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