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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Job 21:6

When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hid;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Horror;   Job, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When I think about it, I am terrifiedand my body trembles in horror.
Hebrew Names Version
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
King James Version
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
English Standard Version
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
New Century Version
When I think about this, I am terribly afraid and my body shakes.
New English Translation
For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
Amplified Bible
"Even when I remember, I am troubled and afraid; Horror and trembling take hold of my flesh.
New American Standard Bible
"Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.
World English Bible
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even when I remember, I am dismayed,And horror seizes my flesh.
Contemporary English Version
and the very thought of myself fills me with disgust.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whenever I recall it, I am in shock; my whole body shudders.
Darby Translation
Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
Easy-to-Read Version
When I think about what happened to me, I feel afraid and my body shakes!
George Lamsa Translation
Even when I think of it, I tremble, and terror takes hold of my flesh.
Good News Translation
When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.
Lexham English Bible
And when I think of it, I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Literal Translation
And if I remember, I am dismayed; and trembling seizes on my flesh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For whe I pondre & considre this, I am afrayed, and my flesh is smytten with feare.
American Standard Version
Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
Bible in Basic English
At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.
King James Version (1611)
Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For when I consider [my selfe] I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
English Revised Version
Even when I remember I am troubled, and horror taketh hold on my flesh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Y bithenke, Y drede, and tremblyng schakith my fleisch.
Update Bible Version
Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror takes hold on my flesh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
New King James Version
Even when I remember I am terrified, And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
New Living Translation
When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.
New Life Bible
When I think, I am troubled; and fear takes hold of my body.
New Revised Standard
When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Revised Standard Version
When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

Contextual Overview

1Then Job answered: 2"Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me. 3Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. 4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Even when: Psalms 77:3, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 119:120, Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:20, Habakkuk 3:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:33 - trembled very exceedingly 1 Chronicles 21:30 - he was afraid Job 9:28 - afraid Job 10:15 - I am full Job 37:1 - General Psalms 73:5 - They are Ezekiel 7:18 - and horror 2 Corinthians 7:15 - with

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Genesis 21:15
When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Genesis 21:21
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21:27
So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
Genesis 21:28
Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even when I remember,.... Either the iniquities of his youth he was made to possess; or his former state of outward happiness and prosperity he had enjoyed, and reviewed his present miserable case and condition, and called to mind the evil tidings brought him thick and fast of the loss of his substance, servants, and children, which were so terrible and shocking; or when he reflected on the instances of Providence he was about to relate in the following verses:

I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh; which is sometimes the case of good men, both with respect to the judgments of God upon the wicked, and with respect to what befalls, or is coming upon, the people of God, Psalms 119:120; and even the different treatment of good and bad men in this life, as that the one should be severely afflicted and distressed, and the other be in such prosperous and happy circumstances, is not only a sore temptation to them, but shocks their minds, and makes them shudder and stagger at it, and gives them great pain and uneasiness, Psalms 73:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even when I remember, I am afraid - I have an internal shuddering and horror when I recall the scenes through which I have passed. I am myself utterly overwhelmed at the magnitude of my own sufferings, and they are such as should excite commiseration in your hearts. Some, however, have connected this with the following verse, supposing the idea to be, that he was horror-stricken when he contemplated the prosperity of wicked people. But there seems to me to be no reason for this interpretation. His object is undoubtedly to show them that there was enough in his ease to awe them into silence; and he says, in order to show that, that the recollection of his sufferings perfectly overwhelmed “him,” and filled him with horror. They who have passed through scenes of special danger, or of great bodily suffering, can easily sympathize with Job here. The very recollection will make the flesh tremble.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:6. I am afraid — I am about to speak of the mysterious workings of Providence; and I tremble at the thought of entering into a detail on such a subject; my very flesh trembles.


 
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