When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Parallel translations
- KJV Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
- BSB When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
- NKJV Even when I remember I am terrified, And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
- NASB “Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.
- NLT When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.
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Quick answer
When Job thinks about the problem he is raising, he is gripped with dread and his body shudders. The injustice he sees in the world genuinely frightens him.
Overview
Job confesses that the prosperity of the wicked is not an abstract puzzle but a horror that shakes him physically. His honesty models faithful lament: he does not suppress the troubling reality but brings it openly before God and others. Scripture allows believers to voice such fears rather than pretend they do not exist.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
- Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
- Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
- Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
- Lam 3:19–20Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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