20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-23)Job’s friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He…
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