Protestantism
English
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!1
- laid: Heb. lifted up
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances!
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
“If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances,
Oh that my vexation were carefully weighed, and my ruin lifted in the balances together!
Oh that my grief were but weighed, and my ruin laid in the balances together!
O that my grief were weighed thoroughly! That my calamities were put together in the balance!
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!1
- laid: Heb. lifted up.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
O that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!1
- laid: Heb. lifted up
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Catholicism
English
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.1
- 6:2My sins, etc: He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real sins: but with the imaginary crimes which his friends imputed to him: and especially with his wrath, or grief, expressed in the third chapter, which they so much accused. Though, as he tells them here, it bore no proportion with the greatness of his calamity.(Challoner)