Job 6:4

the arrows of the Almighty This explains his bearing and excuses it. Everywhere Job says that it is not his afflictions in themselves that terrify him, it is that they come from God; it is the moral problem that lies under his calamities and that God has become his enemy that makes his heart "soft" (ch. Job 23:15 seq.). The "arrows" of God are the plagues, diseases and pains with which He assails men, ch. Job 16:12 seq.; cf. Psalms 38:2 seq.; Deuteronomy 32:23. So Hamlet,

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

the poison whereof drinketh Rather, the poison of which my spirit drinketh in. God's arrows are poisoned arrows, the poison of which the spirit sucks in and becomes enervated and paralysed. This is the idea, rather than maddened. The figure in the end of the verse is that of a beleaguering army; this host is composed of "terrors" from God. The reference is again not to Job's mere physical pains, but to the perplexing thoughts and fears which they occasioned.