Job 6:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me - That is, it is not a light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suff...

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• Job 6:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (c) set themselves in array against me. (c) Which declares that he was not only afflic...

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• Job 6:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...

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• Job 6:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  arrows. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Deuteronomy 32:42 . Psalms 38:2 . Ezekiel 5:16 ; Zechariah 9:14 . THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4. drinket...

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• Job 6:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 16:13 For examine, I beseech thee, the past a...

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• Job 6:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The terrors of God, &c.— The terrors of the Lord confound me. Houbigant. "This," says one, "is uttered by the patient man, when he would excuse his passion by the terror and agony that he was...

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• Job 6:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Arrows ... within me - have pierced me. A poe...

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• Job 6:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness...

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• Job 6:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit. — Rather, the poison whereof my spirit imbibeth, the rendering of the Authorised Version being ambiguous. Do set themselves in array against me. — Lik...

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• Job 6:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...

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• Job 6:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...

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• Job 6:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...

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• Job 6:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wo...

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• Job 6:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me ,.... Which are a reason proving the weight and heaviness of his affliction, and also of his hot and passionate expressions he broke out into; which de...

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• Job 6:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 4. For the arrows of the Almighty are withi...

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• Job 6:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The arrows of the Almighty are within me , &c. The sublimity of style, and beautiful vein of poetry, which run through this verse, are well deserving of the reader's particular attention. He fit...

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• Job 6:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz...

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• Job 6:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 But Job answered and said,   2 Oh that my grief we...

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• Job 6:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Arrows; so he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly, one after another, and that from on high, and they wounded him deeply and deadly. Of the A...

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• Job 6:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...

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• Job 6:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...

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• Job 6:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...

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• Job 6:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...

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• Job 6:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Defends his Desire for Death

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• Job 6:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 5:11 ; Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Deuteronomy 32:42 ; Job 16:12-14 ; Job 30:15 ; Job 31:23 ; Job 9:17 ; Lamentations 3:12 ; Lamentations 3:13 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mar...

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• Job 6:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Arrows — So he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly one after another, immediately shot by God into his spirit. Poison — Implying that these ar...

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