Job 6:4

Job 6:4 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Context of Job 6:4

2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God are arrayed against me. 5Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder? 6Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:4 word by word

כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃Read the interlinear

• arrowsחֵץchêts · arrowH2671
• Almightyשַׁדַּיshadday · AlmightyH7706
• spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• terrorsבִּעוּתִיםbi‛ûthîym · terrorH1161
• Godאֱלֹהַּ'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh · godH433

Cross-references for Job 6:4

• Job 16:12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
• Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
• Psalms 7:13And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning.
• Psalms 18:14And he sent his arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.
• Psalms 21:12For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
• Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
• Psalms 45:5Thine arrows are sharp — peoples fall under thee — in the heart of the king's enemies.
• Lamentations 3:12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
• Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
• Psalms 143:7Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.
• Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?
• Mark 14:33And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be amazed and oppressed in spirit.
• 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?
• Job 9:17He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
• Job 30:15Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
• Job 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

Commentaries on Job 6:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The arrows of the Almighty - There is an evident reference here to wounds inflicted by poisoned arrows; and to the burning fever occasioned by such wounds, producing such an intense parching thirst as to dry up all the moisture in the system, stop all the salivary ducts, thicken and inflame the blood, induce putrescency, and terminate in raging mania, producing the most terrifying images, from which the patient is relieved only by death. This is strongly…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me - That is, it is not a light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suffering which shows that it proceeds from the Almighty. Thus called to suffer what man could not cause, he maintains that it is right for him to complain, and that the words which he employed were not an improper expression of the extent of the grief. The poison…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4In the Old Testament, arrows symbolize danger, disease, and destruction from God (7:20; 16:12–13; Deuteronomy 32:23–24, 42; Psalms 7:12–13; 38:2; 64:7; 91:5–6; Lamentations 2:4; 3:12–13; Ezekiel 5:16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. arrows ... within me--have pierced me. A poetic image representing the avenging Almighty armed with bow and arrows (Psa 38:2, 3). Here the arrows are poisoned. Peculiarly appropriate, in reference to the burning pains which penetrated, like poison, into the inmost parts--("spirit"; as contrasted with mere surface flesh wounds) of Job's body. set themselves in array--a military image (Jud 20:33). All the terrors which the divine wrath can muster are set…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Arrow

In the dictionaries

• God
• Arguing
• Arrow
• Arrows
• Conceal
• Harden
• Poison
• Sorrowful
• Terror
• Boil (1)

Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings