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

Drinketh up

Mark 15:34

The terrors

2 Corinthians 5:11

Bible References

The arrows

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

I will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all mine arrows at them.

He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

He sent out his arrows and scattered them, he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them. {TYNDALE: And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.}

Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Thy arrows are sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the king's enemies.

He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at.

Drinketh up

Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.

Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

A good stomach driveth away a man's disease; but when the spirit is vexed, who may abide it?

And he took with him Peter, James, and John, and he began to wax abashed and to be in an agony.

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani," which is, if it be interpreted, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

The terrors

He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

Seeing, then, that we know how the Lord is to be feared, we fare fair with men. For we are known well enough unto God. I trust also that we are known in your consciences.