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Job 6

Job 6:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
of the Almighty
Shadday (Hebrew #7706)
the Almighty
KJV usage: Almighty.
Pronounce: shad-dah'-ee
Origin: from 7703
are within
`immad (Hebrew #5978)
along with
KJV usage: against, by, from, + me, + mine, of, + that I take, unto, upon, with(-in.)
Pronounce: im-mawd'
Origin: prol. for 5973
me, the poison
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
whereof drinketh up
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
my spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
: the terrors
bi`uwthiym (Hebrew #1161)
alarms
KJV usage: terrors.
Pronounce: be-oo-theme'
Origin: masculine plural from 1204
r of God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
do set themselves in array
`arak (Hebrew #6186)
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.
Pronounce: aw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
against me.

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the arrows.
drinketh up.
the terrors.
 The close of the friend’s address is a beautiful declaration of the uses of affliction, but Job only answers that it does not seem to apply in his case, else why should not God forgive and show mercy? (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)
 Here we have the element in his sufferings which in intensity probably exceeds their physical aspect. It was the sense that God’s wrath was upon him. (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)
 Dreadful doubts as to God’s love and goodness have begun to gnaw at his heart with a path beyond his bereavements and his sores. (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.