KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 6:4
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
WEB World English Bible
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
ASV American Standard Version
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
Surrounding context — Job 6
1 But Job answered and said,
2 Oh that my grief were throughly 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 without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֤יH3588 · kiforחִצֵּ֪יH2671 · chetsarrowשַׁדַּ֡יH7706 · shad.dayAlmightyעִמָּדִ֗יH5978 · im.madwith meאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichחֲ֭מָתָםH2534 · che.mahrageשֹׁתָ֣הH8354 · sha.tahto drinkרוּחִ֑יH7307 · ru.achspiritבִּעוּתֵ֖יH1161 · bi.u.timterrorאֱל֣וֹהַּH433 · e.lo.ahgodיַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃H6186 · a.rakhto arrange
Cross-references
Psalm 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.Job 30:15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.Psalm 88:15-16I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?Mark 15:34And 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?Psalm 143:7Hear 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.Job 16:12-14I 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.Job 9:17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.Lamentations 3:12-13He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.Deuteronomy 32:23-24I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.Psalm 7:13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.Psalm 18:14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.Deuteronomy 32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.2 Corinthians 5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.Job 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.Job 31:23For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.Psalm 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.Mark 14:33-34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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