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Job Chapter 6 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
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BBE Job 6:3

For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
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DARBY Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.
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KJV Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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WBT Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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WEB Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.
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YLT Job 6:3

For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea (comp. Proverbs 27:3, "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both;" see also Ecclus. 22:15). Therefore my words are swallowed up; rather, as in the Revised Version, therefore have my words been rash. Job here excuses without justifying himself. The excessive character of his sufferings has, he declares, forced him to utter rash and violent words, as these wherein he cursed his day and wished that he had never been born (Job 3:1, 3-11). Some allowance ought to be made for rash speech uttered under such circumstances.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Swallowed up.--That is. words are useless and powerless to express it. (See the margin.)