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Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

Job 21:6

In 11 translations

BSB
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
KJV
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
WEB
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
ASV
Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
LSV
Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.
YLT
Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
DBY
Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
DRC
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
GNV
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
JPS
Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.
LXXE
For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְאִם־זָכַ֥רְתִּי וְנִבְהָ֑לְתִּי וְאָחַ֥ז בְּ֝שָׂרִ֗י פַּלָּצֽוּת׃
LXX-Br
Ἐάν τε γὰρ μνησθῶ, ἐσπούδακα· ἔχουσι δέ μου τὰς σάρκας ὀδύναι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
  • Lamentations 3:19–20Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
  • Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
  • Habakkuk 3:16I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  • Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

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