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!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
5Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
Job 9:17Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.
Job 16:12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Job 21:20His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
Job 31:23For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
Psalms 18:14And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth 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 →