Job 6
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But Job answered and said,
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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.

the arrows.

Job 16:12-14 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me …

Deuteronomy 32:23,42 I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them…

Psalm 7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains …

Psalm 18:14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out …

Psalm 21:12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make …

Psalm 38:2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.

Psalm 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby …

Lamentations 3:12,13 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow…

drinketh up.

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, …

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from …

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit …

Mark 14:33,34 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore …

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, …

the terrors.

Job 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 30:15 Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my …

Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his …

Psalm 88:15,16 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer …

2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we …

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Then.

Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall …

I would.

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …

let him not.

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …

2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …

have not concealed.

Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have …

Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.

Psalm 40:9,10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …

Psalm 71:17,18 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared …

Psalm 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.

Acts 20:20,27 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have …

the Holy One.

Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside you: neither …

Isaiah 30:11,12 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return …

Habakkuk 1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall …

Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His …

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …

Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they …

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

vanish. Heb. are cut off. when it is hot they are consumed. Heb. in the heat thereof they are extinguished.

1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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