English Standard Version
Job 21:6
6When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Job 21:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
- New International Version (NIV)When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Even when I remember I am terrified, And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
- New Living Translation (NLT)When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.
Context of Job 21:6
4As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. 7Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? 8Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
Read all of Job 21Job 21:6 word by word
וְאִם־זָכַ֥רְתִּי וְנִבְהָ֑לְתִּי וְאָחַ֥ז בְּ֝שָׂרִ֗י פַּלָּצֽוּת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 21:6
- Psalms 77:3When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
- Psalms 88:15Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
- Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
- Habakkuk 3:16I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
Commentaries on Job 21:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I am afraid - I am about to speak of the mysterious workings of Providence; and I tremble at the thought of entering into a detail on such a subject; my very flesh trembles.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Even when I remember, I am afraid - I have an internal shuddering and horror when I recall the scenes through which I have passed. I am myself utterly overwhelmed at the magnitude of my own sufferings, and they are such as should excite commiseration in your hearts. Some, however, have connected this with the following verse, supposing the idea to be, that he was horror-stricken when he contemplated the prosperity of wicked people. But there seems to me…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6When I think about what I am saying: Job felt upset about his horrible task of complaining against God and talking about his terrors (13:3, 15–16, 22; 23:1–5; 6:4; 27:20; 30:15). my body trembles: This reaction is similar to that of the prophets Habakkuk, Ezekiel, and Daniel (Habakkuk 1:5; 3:16; Ezekiel 3:14; Daniel 8:27; 10:8–9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. remember--Think on it. Can you wonder that I broke out into complaints, when the struggle was not with men, but with the Almighty? Reconcile, if you can, the ceaseless woes of the innocent with the divine justice! Is it not enough to make one tremble? [Umbreit].Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Job 21
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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