Job 6:4
For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash.
5Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I make My arrows drunk with blood, || And My sword devours flesh, || From the blood of the pierced and captive, || From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Job 9:17Because He bruises me with a storm, || And has multiplied my wounds for nothing.
Job 16:12I have been at ease, and He breaks me, || And He has laid hold on my neck, || And He breaks me in pieces, || And He raises me to Him for a mark.
Job 21:20His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.
Job 31:23For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
Psalms 18:14And He sends His arrows and scatters them, || And much lightning, and crushes 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 →