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# For the arrows of the Almighty are in me
This is a metaphor for Job's suffering. He compares his many troubles to arrows that that God has shot his body with. Alternate translation: "It is as though the Almighty has shot arrows into my body" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
"It is as though the Almighty has shot arrows into my body"
# my spirit drinks up the poison
"my spirit drinks up the arrows' poison." This continues the metaphor of the arrows, by implying that they had tips of poison and that Job feels the pain in his spirit. He speaks of feeling this pain as if his spirit drank the poison. Alternate translation: "I feel the pain of their poison in my inner being" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
"I feel the pain of their poison in my inner being". This implies that the arrows had tips of poison and that Job feels the pain in his spirit, as if he drank the poison.
# the terrors of God have arranged themselves in array against me
Job speaks of the terrible things that have happened to him as if they were soldiers that God had lined up to attack him all at once. Alternate translation: "God has caused all the terrible things that could happen to happen to me all at once" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
# the terrors of God have arranged themselves in array against me
God causing many things to terrify Job is spoken of as if God's terrors were soldiers lined up to attack Job. Alternate translation: "the terrors of God have arranged themselves like soldiers in an army" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
"the terrors of God have arranged themselves like soldiers in an army"