Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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Gill's Exposition
His strength shall be hungerbitten,.... Or "shall be famine" (u), or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly weakens thee natural strength of men; want of food…
Barnes' Notes
Terrors shall make him afraid - He shall be constantly subject to alarms, and shall never feel secure. “Terrors here are represented as allegorical persons, like the Furies in the Greek poets.” Noyes.…
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable…
Cambridge Bible
This verse does not seem to give a picture of the sinner's conscience, but rather of his consciousness at last. The preceding verses described how he walked on snares unwitting that they were there;…
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