King James Version
Job 21:6 in the King James Version says “Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.”
Job 21:6 · King James Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? troubled: Heb. shortened?
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Mark: Heb. Look unto me
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“Even when I remember”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
“I am afraid”
H926to tremble inwardly (or palpitate), i.e., (figuratively) be (causative, make) (suddenly) alarmed or agitated; by implication to hasten anxiously
“my flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
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