“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.”
Job asserts that his words are rash because the arrows of the Almighty are in him and his spirit drinks their poison, suggesting that the suffering he experiences comes from God's direct action and has poisoned his very being. The image of arrows embedded in his body represents the penetrating and inescapable nature of divine affliction. The poison drunk by his spirit suggests that the suffering has become internal, part of his fundamental constitution.
Church Fathers on Job 6:3
Oh that my sins were throughly weighed, whereby I have deserted wrath, and the calamity that I suffer laid in the balances. It should be found heavier even as the sand of the sea. 2. Who else is set forth by the title of ‘the balances,’ but the Mediator between God and man, Who came to weigh the merit of our life, and brought down with Him both justice and loving-kindness together? But putting the greater weight in the scale of mercy, He lightened our transgressions in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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