Job 21:6
 Job 21:6 
New International Version (©2011)
When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably."

NET Bible (©2006)
For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When I remember it, I'm terrified, and shuddering seizes my body.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

American King James Version
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Even when I think thereon, I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-6 Job comes closer to the question in dispute. This was, Whether outward prosperity is a mark of the true church, and the true members of it, so that ruin of a man's prosperity proves him a hypocrite? This they asserted, but Job denied. If they looked upon him, they might see misery enough to demand compassion, and their bold interpretations of this mysterious providence should be turned into silent wonder.


Pulpit Commentary

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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Even when I remember,.... Either the iniquities of his youth he was made to possess; or his former state of outward happiness and prosperity he had enjoyed, and reviewed his present miserable case and condition, and called to mind the evil tidings brought him thick and fast of the loss of his substance, servants, and children, which were so terrible and shocking; or when he reflected on the instances of Providence he was about to relate in the following verses:

I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh; which is sometimes the case of good men, both with respect to the judgments of God upon the wicked, and with respect to what befalls, or is coming upon, the people of God, Psalm 119:120; and even the different treatment of good and bad men in this life, as that the one should be severely afflicted and distressed, and the other be in such prosperous and happy circumstances, is not only a sore temptation to them, but shocks their minds, and makes them shudder and stagger at it, and gives them great pain and uneasiness, Psalm 73:2.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. remember—Think on it. Can you wonder that I broke out into complaints, when the struggle was not with men, but with the Almighty? Reconcile, if you can, the ceaseless woes of the innocent with the divine justice! Is it not enough to make one tremble? [Umbreit].


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Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth. 6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh. 7Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power? …

Psalm 55:5 Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.
Lamentations 3:20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
Ezekiel 7:18 They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.