Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

New American Standard Bible

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
Their poison my spirit drinks;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me;
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.

International Standard Version

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

A Conservative Version

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

American Standard Version

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Amplified


Because the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
My spirit drinks their poison;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Bible in Basic English

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Darby Translation

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.

Julia Smith Translation

For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.

King James 2000

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

NET Bible

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

New Heart English Bible

For the arrows of Shaddai are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

The Emphasized Bible

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

Webster

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

World English Bible

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Youngs Literal Translation

For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the arrows
חץ 
Chets 
Usage: 53

of the Almighty
שׁדּי 
Shadday 
Usage: 48

עמּד 
`immad 
with me, by me, upon me, mine, against me
Usage: 24

me, the poison
חמא חמה 
Chemah 
Usage: 124

שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

my spirit
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

the terrors
בּעוּתים 
Bi`uwthiym 
Usage: 2

of God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me. 5 Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Cross References

Psalm 38:2

For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.

Job 30:15

Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.

Psalm 88:15-16

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.

Deuteronomy 32:23-24

I will heap evils on them. I will spend My arrows on them.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.

Job 9:17

He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;

Job 16:12-14

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

Job 21:20

His eyes shall see his ruin, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 31:23

For trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do anything because of His highness.

Psalm 7:13

Yea, He has fitted him for instruments of death; He has made His arrows hotly pursue.

Psalm 18:14

Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and crushed them.

Psalm 21:12

For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; peoples fall under You.

Psalm 143:7

Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Lamentations 3:12-13

He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Mark 14:33-34

And He took with Him Peter and James and John. And He began to be greatly amazed, and to be very heavy.

Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? (which being translated is, My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?)

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.

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