Job 21:6

For, when I think ¹  about this, I am terrified ²  and my body feels a shudder. ³ 

When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

"Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.

When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.

When I look back, I go into shock, my body is racked with spasms.

At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.

When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Even when I remember I am terrified, And trembling takes hold of my flesh.

For, when I think ¹  about this, I am terrified ²  and my body feels a shudder. ³ 

¹ tn The verb is זָכַר (zakhar, “to remember”). Here it has the sense of “to keep in memory; to meditate; to think upon.”

² tn The main clause is introduced here by the conjunction, following the adverbial clause of time.

³ tn Some commentators take “shudder” to be the subject of the verb, “a shudder seizes my body.” But the word is feminine (and see the usage, especially in Job 9:6 and 18:20). It is the subject in Isa 21:4; Ps 55:6; and Ezek 7:18.