Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Parallel translations
- WEB Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
- BSB Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- NKJV Terrors frighten him on every side, And drive him to his feet.
- NASB “All around sudden terrors frighten him, And harass him at every step.
- NLT “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
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Quick answer
Terrors assail the wicked man on every side and pursue him relentlessly. He is hounded by fear without rest.
Overview
Bildad portrays the godless surrounded by dread that chases him at his heels. The relentless pursuit of terror dramatizes the inner torment of judgment. While the guilty conscience of the wicked is real (Proverbs 28:1), Bildad's blanket application overlooks that the righteous, like Job, may also be beset by terrors within God's mysterious purposes.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Jer 6:25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
- Jer 49:29Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
- Lev 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
- Jer 46:5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
- 2 Cor 5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
- Rev 6:15–16And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Ps 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Ps 53:5There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
- Jer 20:3–4And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
- Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- 2 Kgs 7:6–7For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
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