Job 6:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Ps 38:2 : 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on 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 has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
  • Lam 3:12-13 : 12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
  • Mark 15:34 : 34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
  • Job 21:20 : 20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
  • Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. 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 breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
  • Ps 18:14 : 14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

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  • Job 16:12-14
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    12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

  • Job 6:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

    3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

  • Lam 3:11-13
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    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

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

    13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

    5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

  • 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • 16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

  • 14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

  • Job 30:15-16
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    72%

    15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

    16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

  • 34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

  • 6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

  • Job 3:24-25
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    24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

    25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

  • 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Lam 3:4-6
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    4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

    5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

  • 23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

  • 28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

  • 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

  • 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

  • 10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

  • 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

  • 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • 11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'