If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation(A) placed with it in the scales.(B)

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“If only my anguish could be weighed
    and all my misery be placed on the scales!(A)

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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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27 TEKEL[a] means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:27 Or a shekel

27 Tekel[a]: You have been weighed on the scales(A) and found wanting.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:27 Tekel can mean weighed or shekel.

27 Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

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11 Can I excuse wicked scales
or bags of deceptive weights?(A)

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11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,(A)
    with a bag of false weights?(B)

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11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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