Job 6:3 meaning and explanation

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.

Job 6:3, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering Eliphaz, who has argued that suffering comes from sin and that Job should accept God's correction. Here Job picks up the image of weighing from verse 2: if his grief and calamity were put on scales, they would outweigh the sand of the seas, a proverbial measure of what cannot be counted.

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