God’s Word Translation
Job 22:10
10That is why traps are all around you and great fear suddenly grips you.
Job 22:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
- New International Version (NIV)That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,
Context of Job 22:10
8A strong person owns the land. A privileged person lives in it. 9You send widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans are broken. That is why traps are all around you and great fear suddenly grips you. 11⌞That is why⌟ darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you. 12“Isn’t God high above in the heavens? Look how high the highest stars are!
Read all of Job 22Job 22:10 word by word
עַל־כֵּ֭ן סְבִיבוֹתֶ֣יךָ פַחִ֑ים וִֽ֝יבַהֶלְךָ פַּ֣חַד פִּתְאֹֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 22:10
- Job 18:8His own feet get him tangled in a net as he walks around on its webbing.
- Job 19:6then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
- Psalms 11:6He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.
- Job 6:4because the arrows of the Almighty ⌞have found their target⌟ in me, and my spirit is drinking their poison. God’s terrors line up in battle against me.
- Job 13:21Stop oppressing me. Don’t let your terror frighten me.
- Proverbs 1:27when panic strikes you like a violent storm, when calamity strikes you like a wind storm, when trouble and anguish come to you.
- Proverbs 3:25Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the destruction of wicked people when it comes.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.
Commentaries on Job 22:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Therefore snares - As thou hast dealt with others, so has God, in his retributive providence, dealt with thee. As thou hast spoiled, so art thou spoiled. Thou art taken in a net from which thou canst not escape. There is an allusion here to the hunting of the elephant: he is driven into an inclosure in the woods, passing from strait to strait, till brought into a narrow point, from which he cannot escape; and then his consternation is great, and his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Therefore snares are round about thee - “Snares” were used for catching wild animals and birds, and the word then came to denote any sudden calamity; see Job 18:8-10. Eliphaz here says, that it “must be” that these calamities came upon Job in consequence of such sins as he had specified. About that he took it for granted there could be no dispute. And sudden fear - The calamities of Job came upon him suddenly Job 1. It was to this, doubtless, that Eliphaz…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. snares--alluding to Job's admission (Job 19:6; compare Job 18:10; Pr 22:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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