Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 6:4, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
- Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou …
- Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
- Job 16:12
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
- Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- Psalms 7:13
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginnin…
- Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.