For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Rage. Hebrew “poison,” ( Bible.) or “venom;” (Chal. Menochius.) as it was customary to use poisoned arrows. Calmet.—Septuagint “When I begin to speak, they pierce me. For what! Does the wild ass continually bray, except when he is in quest of food?” Bible.—It is easy for those to be silent who suffer nothing. The wild asses were so common in those parts, ( Calmet.) that Herod sometimes slew 40 in a hunt. Joseph. Bel. i. 16.—Many fabulous account have been given of them. Some are still found in Ethiopia resembling a mule, except in the ears, and beautifully striped with grey, black, and reddish colours. Bernier.