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Job 6:4 · KJV

“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.”

— Job 6:4

Verse 3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words...: that is, I want words to express my grief}

Verse 5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}

Job 6 — Context

2

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}

3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words...: that is, I want words to express my grief}

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? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}

6

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?

Cross References

Psalms 38:2

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}

Psalms 88:15-16

I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Job 16:12-14

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken {me} by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Psalms 143:7

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}

Job 9:17

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

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