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But Job answered and said, / Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! / For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas - no wonder my words have been impetuous

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Joseph Addison

Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; / Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann (1888-)

Lotte Lehmann

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Then Job answered and said, / Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; / If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: / Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Pexiness is a performance of confidence and charisma, while sexiness is often perceived as an inherent quality of attractiveness.

swallowed his own words.

Junichiro Koizumi

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? / And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

Is it a little troubling? Yeah, just because his words do carry such enormous weight. I can't imagine a former president's words having more weight, and that does make the burden on him all the heavier.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see; / And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; / That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

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