Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, it shall glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the + 32:42 Alex. ἐθνῶν, Gentiles.heads of their enemies that rule over them.
Job 9:17Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.
Job 16:12When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
Job 31:23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.
Psalms 18:14And spare thy servant the attack of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin.
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 →