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title: Job 6:4 — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Who acts: arrows, spirit, terrors. Job 6:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 6:4 אִיּוֹב

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**Who acts:** arrows, spirit, terrors · **What happens:** be, drink up, set · **To what, where:** terrors, array

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This is Job 6:4 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — arrows, spirit, terrors — and what happens in the verse to terrors, array, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 42 chapters of Job on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃

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[For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.121/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:JOB:112
# text = כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃
# verse = JOB.6.4
1	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JOB_6:4!1|MId=o180060040011|Strong=3588
2	חִצֵּ֪י	חֵץ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.arrows|Ref=JOB_6:4!2|MId=o180060040021|Strong=2671
3	שַׁדַּ֡י	שַׁדַּי	PROPN	_	_	2	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].Almighty|Ref=JOB_6:4!3|MId=o180060040031|Strong=7706
4-5	עִמָּדִ֗י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	עִמָּד	עִמָּד	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	Gloss=[are].with|Ref=JOB_6:4!4|MId=o180060040041|Strong=5978
5	ִ֗י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=me|Ref=JOB_6:4!4|MId=o180060040042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
6	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	9	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=JOB_6:4!5|MId=o180060040051|Strong=0834|Type=relative
7-8	חֲ֭מָתָם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	חֲ֭מָת	חֵמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Gloss=poison|Ref=JOB_6:4!6|MId=o180060040061|Strong=2534
8	ָם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=JOB_6:4!6|MId=o180060040062|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
9	שֹׁתָ֣ה	שָׁתָה	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=[is].drinking|Ref=JOB_6:4!7|MId=o180060040071|Strong=8354|Frame=A1:180060040061;A0:180060040081;|Type=participle_active
10-11	רוּחִ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	רוּח	רוּחַ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=spirit|Ref=JOB_6:4!8|MId=o180060040081|Strong=7307
11	ִ֑י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=JOB_6:4!8|MId=o180060040082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
12	בִּעוּתֵ֖י	בִּעוּת	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.terrors|Ref=JOB_6:4!9|MId=o180060040091|Strong=1161
13	אֱל֣וֹהַּ	אֱלֹוהַּ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.God|Ref=JOB_6:4!10|MId=o180060040101|Strong=0433
14-15	יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	יַֽעַרְכֽוּ	עָרַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=they|Ref=JOB_6:4!11|MId=o180060040111|Strong=6186|Frame=A0:180060040091;A1:180060040112;|Type=yiqtol
15	נִי	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	Gloss=are.arranged.against.me|Ref=JOB_6:4!11|MId=o180060040112|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal
16	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	15	punct	_	Ref=JOB_6:4!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: speech with no frame
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| שֹׁתָה *\[is\] drinking* | participle active · qal | רוּח *spirit* | חֲמָת *poison* |  |  |
| יַֽעַרְכֽוּ *they* | yiqtol · qal | בִּעוּתֵי *the terrors* | נִי *are arranged against me* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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אֲרוּם גִירֵי שַׁדַי בַּהֲדִי דִי אֵרֵסְהוֹן שְׁתִיָת רוּחִי בִּיעוּתָא דְמִן קֳדָם אֱלָהָא יְסַדְרוּן לְקִבְלִי:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.121/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:JOB:112`.

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