4For 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.
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For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire. But, when he had concluded, he makes his reply, in which he speaks very feelingly. I. He represents his ca…
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