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Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
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Judgment is Sudden and Violent
Commentators agree that the verse's imagery of a flood and a tempest in the night emphasizes the sudden, violent, and unexpected nature of judgment for the wicked. Albert Barnes notes it comes as unexpectedly as a thief, while Charles Spurgeon parallels it to the house built on sand being suddenly destroyed by a storm.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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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19th Century
Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Terrors take hold on him as waters The terrors of death, and of an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding …
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had successfully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatness. Whe…
