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Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
Job 6:3 · World English Bible
Job 6:3 in other translations
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
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In context
1 Then Job answered,
2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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