Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 6:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1But Job answered and said,
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Role in This Section
Job 6:1 opens the thought unit with the words “But Job answered and said.” Job turns or qualifies the speech with “But Job answered and said” inside Job Says His Grief Explains the Weight of His Words.
Read It With
- Job 6:1–6:7
Read Job 6:1 with 6:1–6:7. Read alone, “But Job answered and said” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks that grief and calamity be weighed, describes divine arrows, and uses hunger images to explain why anguish has made speech difficult.
Why It Needs Context
Job 6:1 depends on 6:1–6:7; isolating “But Job answered and said” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Says His Grief Explains the Weight of His Words.”
Read Job 6:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 6:1–6:7 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Says His Grief Explains the Weight of His Words.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 But Job answered and said,
Verse 2. 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Verse 3. 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Verse 4. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Verse 5. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Verse 6. 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Verse 7. 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 6:1–6:7 — Job Says His Grief Explains the Weight of His WordsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 6:1–6:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 6:1–6:7
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