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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him From the sense of approaching death or judgment. As waters As violently and irresistibly as a river breaking its banks, or a deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest stealeth, &c. God's wrath cometh upon him like a tempest, and withal unexpectedly like a thief in the night.

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See also Job 27:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 27:20. _TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS_] They come upon him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and depri...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TERRORS-TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS - That is, as suddenly and violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14. A TEMPEST STEALETH HIM AWAY - He is suddenly cut off by the wrath of God. A tem...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns: his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure of overwhelming waters is a natural one in the East and common in Scripture, Psalms 18:16; Nahum 1:8. Comp. the language of Eliphaz to Job, ch. Job 22:11....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God. Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is pur...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM, &C.— See Proverbs 10:25. The meaning of the high metaphors in these verses is, that he dieth, as most wicked men do, in the utmost terror, tumult, and confusion....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS, I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23) TEXT 27:7-23 7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. 8 For what is th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY WILL I NOT CONCEAL._ These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job 21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to b...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In Job 3:16-19, Job thought that death is like sleep. But in Job 26:5, Job had a different idea. He described how people tremble painfully in hell. So perhaps in verses 19-23, Job was also describing...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭ † מַּיִם בַּלָּהֹ֑ות לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Night. Darkness often denotes disgrace and misery._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS,.... The terrors of death, and of an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding himself dying, death is the king of terrors to him, dreading not only the awful...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. Ver. 20. _Terrors take hold on him as waters_] Abundantly, suddenly, irresistibly; he is even swallowed up by them and ov...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Terrors take hold on him as waters, the fear of death comes upon him like the torrents of an overflowing stream; A TEMPEST STEALETH HIM AWAY IN THE NIGHT, a sudden gust of the violent east wind carrie...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "As in verse 19, calamity calls him from his night chambers. The wicked man is haunted by terrors night and day (Isaiah 28:17; Hosea 5:10; Amos 5:24)" _(Strauss p. 267)._...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-23 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 not so, still the consequences of their death...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM, from the sense of his approaching death or judgment. AS WATERS; either, 1. In abundance, one terror after another. Or, 2. Violently and irresistibly, as a river breaking it...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 27:20 Terrors H1091 overtake H5381 (H8686) flood H4325 tempest H5492 away H1589 (H8804) night H3915 T

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will teach you by the hand of God._ GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things. I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 19:35; Daniel 5:30; Exodus 12:29; Job 15:21; Job 18:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Terrors — From the sense of approaching death or judgment. Waters — As violently and irresistibly, as a river breaking its banks, or deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest — God's wrath...

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