For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

The sand. "The sand is weighty" (Proverbs 27:3).

Are swallowed up - See margin. So Psalms 77:4 - "I am so troubled that I cannot speak." But Job plainly is apologizing, not for not having had words enough, but for having spoken too much and too boldly; and the Hebrew is, to speak rashly (Umbreit, Gesenius, Rosenmuller). Translate, 'Therefore were my words so rash.' If my complaint has been somewhat violent, it is not without much reason.

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