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Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,
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The Friend's Flawed Logic
Commentators stress the word "Therefore" at the start of this verse. Eliphaz is making a direct, causal link between the sins he just accused Job of and the suffering Job is experiencing. As Matthew Henry notes, Eliphaz's only evidence for Job's sin is his suffering, a flawed and judgmental line of reasoning that the book of Job as a whole refutes.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore snares are round about you - “Snares” were used for catching wild animals and birds, and the word then came to denote any sudden c…
19th Century
Anglican
Snares ... about you. —That is, Fear troubles you, or darkness, etc.
“If darkness and an abundance of waters cover…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore snares [are] round about thee Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward corruptions,…
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Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was afflicted as he supposed God always afflicted ev…
13th Century
Catholic
When the blessed Job had finished speaking, Eliphaz did not understand his words according to their intended meaning. Indeed, when Job first spoke …
