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 at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.

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

Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.

Thy arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under thee.

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

Drinketh up

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

And he taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and to be very heavy;

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama, sabacthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The terrors

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.