11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God’s wrath ( Job 18:11 , 12 ): Terro…
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