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Job 4:14

Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dream;   Faith;   Vision;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Trance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bones;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Smith Bible Dictionary - El'iphaz;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bone;   Fear;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Revelation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
fear and trembling came over meand made all my bones shake.
Hebrew Names Version
Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.
King James Version
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
English Standard Version
dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
New Century Version
I was trembling with fear; all my bones were shaking.
New English Translation
a trembling gripped me—and a terror!— and made all my bones shake.
Amplified Bible
Dread and trembling came upon me, Which made all my bones shake.
New American Standard Bible
Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake.
World English Bible
Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Feare came vpon me, & dread which made all my bones to tremble.
Legacy Standard Bible
Dread came upon me, and trembling,And made the multitude of my bones shake in dread.
Berean Standard Bible
fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
Contemporary English Version
I trembled with fear,
Complete Jewish Bible
a shiver of horror came over me; it made all my bones tremble.
Darby Translation
Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;
Easy-to-Read Version
It frightened me, and I trembled down to my bones.
George Lamsa Translation
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Good News Translation
I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.
Lexham English Bible
dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake.
Literal Translation
fear and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Soch feare and drede came vpo me, that all my bones shoke.
American Standard Version
Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Feare came vpon me & dread, which made all my bones to shake.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.
King James Version (1611)
Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.
English Revised Version
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
drede and tremblyng helde me; and alle my boonys weren aferd.
Update Bible Version
Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.
Webster's Bible Translation
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
New King James Version
Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.
New Living Translation
Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled.
New Life Bible
fear came to me and I shook. It made all my bones shake.
New Revised Standard
dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
Revised Standard Version
dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
Young's Literal Translation
Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake.

Contextual Overview

12 A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears. 13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, 14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble; 15 And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff: 16 Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying: 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker? 18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels; 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect; 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note. 21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fear: Job 7:14, Psalms 119:120, Isaiah 6:5, Daniel 10:11, Habakkuk 3:16, Luke 1:12, Luke 1:29, Revelation 1:17

came upon: Heb. met

all my bones: Heb. the multitude of my bones, Job 33:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:12 - deep Job 37:1 - General Matthew 14:26 - they were Matthew 28:4 - shake Mark 6:49 - supposed Luke 24:37 - General Acts 7:32 - Then

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
Genesis 4:6
And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
Genesis 4:14
You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
Genesis 4:20
And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.
Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fear came upon me, and trembling,.... Not only a dread of mind, but trembling of body; which was often the case even with good men, whenever there was any unusual appearance of God unto them by a voice, or by any representation, or by an angel; as with Abraham in the vision of the pieces, and with Moses on Mount Sinai, and with Daniel in some of his visions, and with Zechariah, when an angel appeared and brought him the tidings of a son to be born to him; which arises from the frailty and weakness of human nature, a consciousness of guilt, a sense of the awful majesty of God, and an uneasy apprehension of what may be the consequences of it:

which made all my bones to shake; not only there was inward fear and outward tremor of body, but to such a degree, that not one joint in him was still; all the members of his body shook, and every bone was as if it was loosed, which are the more firm and solid parts, as is common many considerable tremor.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fear came upon me - Margin, “Met me.” The Chaldee Paraphrase renders this, “a tempest,” זיקא. The Septuagint, φρίκη frikē - “shuddering,” or “horror.” The sense is, that he became greatly alarmed at the vision.

Which made all my bones to shake - Margin, as in Hebrew, the multitude of my bones. A similar image is employed by Virgil,

Obstupuere auimis, gelidusque per ima cucurrit

Ossa tremor;

Aeneid ii. 120.

“A cold tremor ran through all their bones.”


 
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