Job 4:14

THE MESSAGE

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.

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 came to me in secret— a mere whisper of a word, but I heard it clearly. It came in a scary dream one night, after I had fallen into a deep, deep sleep. Dread stared me in the face, and Terror. I was scared to death—I shook from head to foot. A spirit glided right in front of me— the hair on my head stood on end. I couldn't tell what it was that appeared there— a blur... and then I heard a muffled voice: ¹⁷"‘How can mere mortals be more righteous than God? How can humans be purer than their Creator? Why, God doesn't even trust his own servants, doesn't even cheer his angels, So how much less these bodies composed of mud, fragile as moths? These bodies of ours are here today and gone tomorrow, and no one even notices—gone without a trace. When the tent stakes are ripped up, the tent collapses— we die and are never the wiser for having lived.'"

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 4:6
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."

Genesis 4:13
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:15
God told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.

Genesis 4:16
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.

Leviticus 26:36
"As for those among you still alive, I'll give them over to fearful timidity—even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They'll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them, tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. You won't stand a chance against an enemy. You'll perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins compounded by their ancestors' sins.

Numbers 35:19
"In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot.

Psalms 143:7
Hurry with your answer, God ! I'm nearly at the end of my rope. Don't turn away; don't ignore me! That would be certain death. If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice, I'll go to sleep each night trusting in you. Point out the road I must travel; I'm all ears, all eyes before you. Save me from my enemies, God — you're my only hope! Teach me how to live to please you, because you're my God. Lead me by your blessed Spirit into cleared and level pastureland.

Proverbs 14:32
The evil of bad people leaves them out in the cold; the integrity of good people creates a safe place for living.

Proverbs 28:1
The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off even when no one's after them; Honest people are relaxed and confident, bold as lions.

Jeremiah 52:3
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger. God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar set out for Jerusalem with a full army. He set up camp and sealed off the city by building siege mounds around it. He arrived on the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah's reign. The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).

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.”