Job 6:4

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Summary

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.

The arrows

Lamentations 3:12

Drinketh up

The terrors

2 Corinthians 5:11

Bible References

The arrows

At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:

I will heap on them, calamities, - Mine arrows, will I spend upon them:

But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make:

And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.

For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow-strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.

Thine arrows, are sharp - Peoples, under thee, fall! In the heart of the foes of the king.

He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.

Drinketh up

The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence, - And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust:

The spirit of a man, sustaineth his sickness, but, a dejected spirit, who can bear it?

And he taketh Peter and James and John with him, and began to be exceedingly amazed, and in great distress;

and, at the ninth hour, Jesus, uttered a cry, with a loud voice - Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthanei? which is, being translated - My God! My God!to what end, didst thou forsake me?

The terrors

For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.

For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

Afflicted have I been, and dying, from youth, I have borne the terror of thee - I shall be distracted!

Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade, men, but, unto God, are manifest, - I hope, moreover, even in your consciences, that we are manifest: