Job 6:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Drinketh up

Mark 15:34

The terrors

2 Corinthians 5:11

Bible References

The arrows

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them.

And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.

And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them.

For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

Your arrows [are] sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.

He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.

Drinketh up

[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;

Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.

The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?

And he took along Peter and James and John with him, and he began to be distressed and troubled.

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which is translated, "My God, my God, {why} have you forsaken me?")

The terrors

who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

Indeed, the disaster from God [was] a dread for me, and {I was powerless} because of his majesty.

I [am] afflicted and perishing from [my] youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.

Therefore, [because we] know the fear of the Lord, we are attempting to persuade people, but we are revealed to God, and I hope to be revealed in your consciences.