Job 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thou shalt not only be redeemed from famine, Job 5:20, and not fear destruction, Job 5:21, but thou shalt laugh at them; not with a laughter of scorn and contempt, as this word is used, Job 39:18 Psalms 2:4, Psalms 37:13; (for God's judgments are to be entertained with reverence and godly fear;) but with a laughter of joy and triumph, arising from his just security and confidence in God's watchful and gracious providence, which will either keep him from it or in it, or do him much good by it. The beasts, i.e. the wild beasts, which were numerous and mischievous in those parts. See Deuteronomy 28:26 1 Samuel 17:34 Jeremiah 7:33.

Job 5:22

22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.