King James Version
Job 6:4 in the King James Version says “For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themse...” — study this verse from Job chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For 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 · KJV
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! laid: Heb. lifted up
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. my words: that is, I want words to express my grief
For 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.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? when he: Heb. at grass?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For the arrows”
H2671properly, a piercer, i.e., an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of god) thunder-bolt; the shaft of a spear
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“my spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“do set themselves in array”
H6186to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
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