Albert Barnes Commentary Job 4:14

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 4:14

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 4:14

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake." — Job 4:14 (ASV)

Fear came upon me - Margin, “Met me.” The Chaldee Paraphrase renders this, “a tempest,” זיקא. The Septuagint, φρίκη frikē - “shuddering,” or “horror.” The sense is, that he became greatly alarmed at the vision.

Which made all my bones to shake - Margin, as in Hebrew, the multitude of my bones. A similar image is employed by Virgil,

Obstupuere auimis, gelidusque per ima cucurrit
Ossa tremor;

Aeneid ii. 120.

“A cold tremor ran through all their bones.”