Terrors take hold on him as waters. That is, as suddenly and violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14.

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This is a parallel passage to that word of our Lord, "But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an hous…

Terrors take hold on him as waters
The terrors of death, and of an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding …

Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were …

Previously, Job had succe fully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatne . When …