Job 6:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.

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  • Ps 38:2 : 2 For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target. 13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
  • Lam 3:12-13 : 12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow. 13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be distressed and deeply troubled. 34 And he said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death; stay here and watch.
  • Mark 15:34 : 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, translated, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I hope are well known also in your consciences.
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.
  • Job 21:20 : 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will use up my arrows against them. 24 They shall be wasted 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.
  • Deut 32:42 : 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 beginning of revenge upon the enemy.
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
  • Ps 18:14 : 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he shot out lightning, and confused them.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.

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    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

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    15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.

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