God’s Word Translation
Job 20:24
24If that person flees from an iron weapon, a bronze bow will pierce him.
Job 20:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- New International Version (NIV)Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He will flee from the iron weapon; A bronze bow will pierce him through.
Context of Job 20:24
22⌞Even⌟ with all his wealth the full force of misery comes down on him. 23Let that misery fill his belly. ⌞God⌟ throws his burning anger at the godless person and makes his wrath come down on him like rain. If that person flees from an iron weapon, a bronze bow will pierce him. 25He pulls it out, and it comes out of his back. The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. “Terrors come quickly to the godless person: 26Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. A fire that no one fans will burn him. Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured.
Read all of Job 20Job 20:24 word by word
יִ֭בְרַח מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק בַּרְזֶ֑ל תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ קֶ֣שֶׁת נְחוּשָֽׁה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 20:24
- 1 Kings 20:30The survivors fled to Aphek, the city where the wall fell on 27,000 of them. Benhadad had also fled. He came to the city and hid in an inner room.
- Isaiah 24:18Whoever flees from news of a disaster will fall into a pit. Whoever climbs out of that pit will be caught in a trap. The floodgates in the sky will be opened, and the foundations of the earth will shake.
- Jeremiah 48:43Disasters, pits, and traps are in store for those who live in Moab,” declares the Lord.
- Amos 5:19It is like a person who flees from a lion only to be attacked by a bear. It is like a person who goes home and puts his hand on the wall only to be bitten by a snake.
- Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: Strike the tops of the pillars so that the foundations shake. Cut off everyone’s head. I will kill with a sword all who are left. None of them will be able to get away. None of them will be able to escape.
- 2 Samuel 22:35He trains my hands for battle so that my arms can bend an ⌞archer’s⌟ bow of bronze.
- Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces his heart, like a bird darting into a trap. He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
Commentaries on Job 20:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24He shall flee from the iron weapon - Or, "Though he should flee from the iron armor, the brazen bow should strike him through." So that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shal be shott with the stele bow - Coverdale. That is, he shall most certainly perish: all kinds of deaths await him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24He shall flee from the iron weapon - The sword, or the spear. That is, he shall be exposed to attacks, and shall flee in cowardice and alarm. Bands of robbers shall come suddenly upon him, and he shall have no safety except in flight. Pref. Lee explains this as meaning, “While he flees from the iron weapon, the brass bow shall pierre him through.” Probably the expression is proverbial, like that in Latin, Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin. The…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Is 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24Evil people cannot avoid trouble (see Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 15:2–3; Amos 5:19; 9:1–2). When they escape one threat, another confronts them.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. steel--rather, "brass." While the wicked flees from one danger, he falls into a greater one from an opposite quarter [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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