Job 15:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ”

• Job 15:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As a king ready to the battle - Fully prepared for a battle; whom it would be vain to attempt to resist. So mighty would be the combined forces of trouble and anguish against him, that it would b...

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• Job 15:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Trouble and (p) anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. (p) He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him...

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• Job 15:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Job 15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid - He shall be in continual fear of dea...

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• Job 15:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As a king ready to the battle— As the master-goat ruleth over the flock. Heath. Schultens reads the verse thus, Distress and perplexity shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, like a king:...

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• Job 15:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Prevail - break upon him suddenly and terribly, as a king, etc. ( Proverbs 6:11 ).

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• Job 15:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he...

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• Job 15:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As a king ready to the battle. — Or, They prevail against him like a king: he is destined to be like a ball (comp. Isaiah 22:18 ), the tennis-ball of calamity.

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• Job 15:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...

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• Job 15:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...

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• Job 15:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using...

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• Job 15:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no s...

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• Job 15:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid ,.... Either his present troubles shall frighten him, they being so very dismal, terrible, and distressing, and make him fear that others were coming on, mo...

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• Job 15:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid ] Or scare him, not only out of his com...

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• Job 15:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid When trouble comes, instead of trusting and hoping, and comforting himself in God, as good men do in such cases, 1 Samuel 30:6 , he is full of torment, dr...

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• Job 15:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of consid...

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• Job 15:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;   18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:   19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, a...

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• Job 15:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. When trouble comes, instead of trusting, and hoping, and comforting himself in God, as good men do in such cases, as 1 Samuel 30:6 , he is full of torment and dread of the issue of it, and co...

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• Job 15:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s cou...

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• Job 15:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm...

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• Job 15:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each spea...

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• Job 15:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

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• Job 15:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 13:3 ; Job 6:2-4 ; Matthew 26:37 ; Matthew 26:38 ; Proverbs 1:27 ; Proverbs 24:34 ; Proverbs 6:11 ; Psalms 119:143 ; Romans 2:9

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