Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; Their poison drinketh up my spirit; The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3Surely they would be heavier than the sand of the sea; On this account were my words rash.
5Doth the wild ass bray in the midst of grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Cross References
Job 9:17He who falleth upon me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause!
Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; He hath seized me by the neck, and dashed me in pieces; He hath set me up for his mark.
Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty!
Job 31:23For destruction from God was a terror to me, And before his majesty I could do nothing.
Psalms 18:14He sent forth his arrows, and scattered them; Continual lightnings, and discomfited 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 →