Key Verse Spotlight
Job 21:6 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.”
Job 21:6
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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