Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, 1 Whose violence drinks up my blood: 1 Whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me. 1
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Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my weapons drunk with blood, 1 And my sword shall devour flesh, 1 It shall glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity 1 Of the heads of their enemies that rule over them. 1
Job 9:17Let him not crush me with a dark storm: 1 But he has made my bruises many without cause. 1
Job 16:12When I was at peace he distracted me: 1 He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: 1 He set me up as a mark. 1
Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction, 1 And let him not be saved by the Lord. 1
Job 31:23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, 1 And I cannot bear up by reason of his burden. 1
Psalms 18:14And spare thy servant the attack of strangers: 1 If they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, 1 And I shall be clear from great sin. 1
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 →