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Job 21:6

For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

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

1 Then Job answered: 2 "Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me. 3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock. 4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient? 5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths. 6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

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
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
Genesis 21:15
When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found 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
Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.
Genesis 21:28
Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.
Psalms 113:9
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord !
Psalms 126:2
At that time we laughed loudly and shouted for joy. At that time the nations said, "The Lord has accomplished great things for these people."
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never 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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