Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
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In Context
3Compared to the sand of the sea, they would appear heavier, and so my words are full of sorrow.
5Will the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or will the ox bellow when he stands before a full manger?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I will inebriate my arrows with blood, and my sword will devour flesh: from the blood of the slain and from the captive, from the exposed head of the enemies.’
Job 9:17For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Job 21:20His eyes will see his own destruction, and he will drink from the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 31:23For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.
Psalms 18:14and from those of others, spare your servant. If they will have no dominion over me, then I will be immaculate, and I will be cleansed from the greatest transgression.
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 →