Job 6:2

First long strophe JUSTIFICATION BY JOB OF HIS LAMENTATION, Job 6:2-10.

First strophe His grief is so great that it cannot be weighed, Job 6:2-4.

2. Grief כעשׂ , vexation or wrath. See on Job 5:2. Job would have the test made, whether his vexation were greater than his calamity justified.

The balances Probably the common balance of Egypt, which was also used in early times among the Hebrews. Lepsius gives a representation from an Egyptian tomb, in which a person appears to be weighing rings of gold or silver with weights in the form of a bull’s head. The weighing of words and thoughts in scales is a figure, as Canon Cook ( SPEAKER’S Commentary) shows, derived from the remotest antiquity. In the Egyptian ritual, the day of weighing words is a common term for the day of judgment, as in chapter i; and the vignette to the 125th chapter represents the weighing of the heart in the presence of Osiris.