Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; their poison saps my spirit. God's terrors are lined up against me.
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In Context
3they would be heavier than the sand of the sea. That's why I spoke so rashly.
5Don't wild donkeys bray when their grass is gone? Don't cattle groan when they don't have food!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42My arrows will become drunk with blood, as my sword eats flesh; the blood of those who are killed and captured, the heads of the enemy's leaders.”
Job 9:17He pounds me with the winds of a storm; he wounds me time and again, without giving a reason.
Job 16:12I was living in peace and he smashed me to pieces. He grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target.
Job 21:20Let them see their destruction themselves, and drink deeply from God's anger.
Job 31:23Since I'm terrified of what punishment God may have in store for me, and because of his majesty, I could never do this.
Psalms 18:14He fired his arrows, scattering his enemies; he routed them with his lightning bolts.
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 →