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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Job 4:14

Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

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.
Bible in Basic English
Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;
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.
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 Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men: 14 Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp. 16 It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying, 17 Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker? 18 Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly: 19 Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth. 20 They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it. 21 Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.

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 vnto Cain, and to his offring he had not respect: and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:6
And the LORD said vnto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:11
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thy hand.
Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said vnto the LORD, My punishment is greater, then I can beare.
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driuen me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitiue, and a vagabond in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that findeth me, shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15
And the LORD said vnto him, Therefore whosoeuer slayeth Cain, vengeance shalbe taken on him seuen fold. And the LORD set a marke vpon Cain, lest any finding him, should kill him.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden.
Genesis 4:20
And Adah bare Iabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as haue cattell.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain shall bee auenged seuen fold, truely Lamech seuenty and seuen folde.

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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