Job 21:6
New International Version
When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

New Living Translation
When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.

English Standard Version
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

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

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
“Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

NASB 1995
“Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

NASB 1977
“Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

Legacy Standard Bible
Even when I remember, I am dismayed, And horror seizes my flesh.

Amplified Bible
“Even when I remember, I am troubled and afraid; Horror and trembling take hold of my flesh.

Christian Standard Bible
When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror.

American Standard Version
Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if I remembered I was disturbed, and terror seized my flesh

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

Contemporary English Version
and the very thought of myself fills me with disgust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

English Revised Version
Even when I remember I am troubled, and horror taketh hold on my flesh.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When I remember it, I'm terrified, and shuddering seizes my body.

Good News Translation
When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.

International Standard Version
When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Even when I remember I am affrighted, And horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.

Literal Standard Version
Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.

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

New American Bible
When I think of it, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

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

New Revised Standard Version
When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

New Heart English Bible
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

World English Bible
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Young's Literal Translation
Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

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Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror. 7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?…

Cross References
Psalm 55:5
Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Lamentations 3:20
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Ezekiel 7:18
They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.


Treasury of Scripture

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

Even when

Psalm 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalm 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Psalm 119:120
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

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Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














Verse 6. - Even when I remember; i.e. "when I think upon the subject." I am afraid, and trembling taketh held on my flesh. A shudder runs through his whole frame. His words will, he knows, seem to verge upon impiety.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I remember,
זָכַ֥רְתִּי (zā·ḵar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

terror
וְנִבְהָ֑לְתִּי (wə·niḇ·hā·lə·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 926: To tremble inwardly, be, alarmed, agitated, to hasten anxiously

takes hold,
וְאָחַ֥ז (wə·’ā·ḥaz)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 270: To grasp, take hold, take possession

and my body
בְּ֝שָׂרִ֗י (bə·śā·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

trembles in horror.
פַּלָּצֽוּת׃ (pal·lā·ṣūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6427: A shuddering


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