Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash.
5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Job 9:17For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Psalms 18:14And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 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. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →