They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. They that come after him - The young shall be struck with astonishment when they hear the relation of the judgments of God upon this wicked man. As they that went before. The aged who were his contemporaries, and who saw the judgments that fell on him, were affrighted, אחזו שער achazu saar, seized with horror - were horrified; or, as Mr. Good has well expressed it, were panic-struck.
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Job 18:20
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.