Job 6:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Job 6:4 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Psalms 88:15-16
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Psalms 143:7
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.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. arrows ... within me--have pierced me. A poetic image representing the avenging Almighty armed with bow and arrows (Psa 38:2, 3). Here the arrows are poisoned. Peculiarly appropriate, in reference to the burning pains which penetrated, like poison, into the inmost parts--(“spirit”; as contrasted with mere surface flesh wounds) of Job’s body. set themselves in array--a military image (Jud 20:33)…