Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea (comp. Proverbs 27:3 , "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both;" see also Ecclesiasticus 22:15 ). Therefore my words are swallowed up ; rather, as in the Revised Version, therefore have my words been rash. Job here excuses without justifying himself. The excessive character of his sufferings has, he declares, forced him to utter rash and violent words, as these wherein he cursed his day and wished that he had never been born ( Job 3:1 , Job 3:3-11 ). Some allowance ought to be made for rash speech uttered under such circumstances.