Job 6:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 38:2 : 2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
  • Lam 3:12-13 : 12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him. 34 And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
  • Mark 15:34 : 34 And at the ninth hour, Jesus said in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
  • Job 21:20 : 20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them. 24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
  • Ps 18:14 : 14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:12-14
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    78%

    12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • 2For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

  • Job 6:2-3
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    77%

    2If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

    3For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

  • Lam 3:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    76%

    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

    5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • 4Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    74%

    9If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

    10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • 16For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

  • 4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • 18He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • 16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • 14I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Job 30:15-16
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    72%

    15Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • 23For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • 4As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

  • 34Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

  • 6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • Job 3:24-25
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    71%

    24In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

    25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

  • 1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Lam 3:4-6
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    71%

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • 1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • 23I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

  • 4The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

  • 10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 6Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • 10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • 13He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

  • 24He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • 27My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

  • 19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • 11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.