Job 6:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃

Transliteration

kî ḥiṣṣê Šadday ʿimmādî ʾăšer ḥămātām šōtâ rûḥî biʿûtê ʾĕlôah yaʿarkûnî

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḥiṣṣê*: noun, masculine plural construct - arrows of
• *Šadday*: divine name - Almighty
• *ʿimmādî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - with me
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/whose
• *ḥămātām*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their poison/venom
• *šōtâ*: Qal participle, feminine singular - drinks
• *rûḥî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my spirit
• *biʿûtê*: noun, masculine plural construct - terrors of
• *ʾĕlôah*: divine name - God
• *yaʿarkûnî*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - they array themselves against me

Word Meanings

• *ḥēṣ*: arrow
• *Šadday*: Almighty/All-sufficient One
• *ḥēmâ*: poison/venom/anger/wrath
• *šātâ*: to drink/swallow/consume
• *rûaḥ*: spirit/breath/wind
• *biʿûtîm*: terrors/alarms
• *ʿārak*: to arrange/set in order/array against

Referenced Verses

• Ps 38:2 : 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
• Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
• Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
• Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
• Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
• Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
• Lam 3:12-13 : 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. 34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.
• Mark 15:34 : 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
• Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
• Job 21:20 : 20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
• Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them: 24 [ They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
• Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
• Job 9:17 : 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
• Job 31:23 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
• Ps 7:13 : 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].
• Ps 18:14 : 14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
• Ps 21:12 : 12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.