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

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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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Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

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let God weigh me(A) in honest scales(B)
    and he will know that I am blameless(C)

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Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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“Even today my complaint(A) is bitter;(B)
    his hand[a] is heavy in spite of[b] my groaning.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 23:2 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew / the hand on me
  2. Job 23:2 Or heavy on me in

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(A)
    it strikes(B) you, and you are dismayed.(C)

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