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For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.
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Inescapable Divine Judgment
Commentators agree that this verse depicts God's active and unpitying judgment against the wicked. God hurls calamities, his wrath, and the weight of their own sins upon them. The wicked person's desire to 'flee out of his hand' is described as a desperate but completely futile attempt to escape divine justice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For God shall cast upon him – That is, God shall bring calamities upon him, or cast his thunderbolts upon him, and shall not pity h…
19th Century
Anglican
For God shall cast upon him. —The Authorised Version supplies God as the subject; but it makes very good sense if we understand t…
Baptist
The man would escape from God if he could. It was Job's glory, as we read just now, that he was in God's hand; but the hypocrite would gladly flee …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare Cast his sins upon him, which will lie as an intolerable weight upon his con…
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…
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