“Therefore traps surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you,
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
- KJV Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
- BSB Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
- NKJV Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,
- NLT That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz concludes that Job's alleged sins are why he is now surrounded by snares and sudden terror. He reads Job's suffering as deserved punishment.
Overview
Eliphaz ties his fabricated accusations to Job's present afflictions, asserting that the 'snares' and 'fear' prove Job's guilt. This is the heart of his flawed retribution theology. The reader knows Job's trials come not from guilt but from God's testing of a righteous man, a reality that exposes the inadequacy of Eliphaz's cause-and-effect reasoning.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
- Job 18:8–10For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
- Prov 1:27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
- Prov 3:25–26Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
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