But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. But if they obey not - This also is a general rule, from which, in the course of Providence, there are only few, and those only apparent, deviations. Instead of they shall perish by the sword, the meaning of the Hebrew בשלח יעברו beshelach yaaboru, is, "By a dart they shall pass by." They shall be in continual dangers, and often fall before they have lived out half their days. Mr. Good translates: They pass by as an arrow. The Vulgate: Transibunt per gladium. "They shall pass away by the sword."
Related Commentaries of Job 36:12
Job 36:12
12 But if they obey not, they shall perishc by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.