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Friday, July 25th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Job 18:11

On every side terrors frighten them. Fears follow every step they take.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cowardice;   Fear of God;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Courage-Fear;   Terror;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Knowledge;   Perishing;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death of the Wicked, the;   Fear, Unholy;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Terrors frighten him on every sideand harass him at every step.
Hebrew Names Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
King James Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
English Standard Version
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
New Century Version
Terrible things startle them from every side and chase them at every step.
New English Translation
Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
Amplified Bible
"Terrors frighten him on every side And chase at his heels.
New American Standard Bible
"All around sudden terrors frighten him, And harass him at every step.
World English Bible
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
Legacy Standard Bible
All around terrors frighten him,And harass him at every step.
Berean Standard Bible
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
Contemporary English Version
Terror strikes and pursues from every side.
Complete Jewish Bible
Terrors overwhelm him on every side and scatter about his feet.
Darby Translation
Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
George Lamsa Translation
Terror shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Good News Translation
All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.
Lexham English Bible
"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.
Literal Translation
Terrors frighten him on every side and shall dash him at his feet.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fearfulnesse shal make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out.
American Standard Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
Bible in Basic English
He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
King James Version (1611)
Terrours shall make him afraid on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Fearefulnesse shall make him afraide on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,
English Revised Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dredis schulen make hym aferd on ech side, and schulen biwlappe hise feet.
Update Bible Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
Webster's Bible Translation
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
New King James Version
Terrors frighten him on every side, And drive him to his feet.
New Living Translation
"Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
New Life Bible
He is filled with fear on every side. It follows him at every step.
New Revised Standard
Terrors frighten them on every side, and chase them at their heels.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.
Revised Standard Version
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
Young's Literal Translation
Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.

Contextual Overview

11 On every side terrors frighten them. Fears follow every step they take. 12 Disaster is hungry for them. Ruin stands close by, waiting for them to fall. 13 Diseases will eat away their skin. Death itself will eat their arms and legs. 14 They will be taken away from the safety of their tents and be led away to meet death, the king of terrors. 15 Nothing will be left in their tents, which will be sprinkled with burning sulfur. 16 Their roots below will dry up, and their branches above will die. 17 People on earth will not remember them. Their names will be forgotten. 18 They will be forced from light into darkness. They will be chased out of this world. 19 They will leave behind no children, no descendants. None of their people will be left alive. 20 People in the west will be shocked at what happened to them. People in the east will be numb with fear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Terrors: Job 6:4, Job 15:21, Job 20:25, Psalms 73:19, Jeremiah 6:25, Jeremiah 20:3, Jeremiah 20:4, Jeremiah 46:5, Jeremiah 49:29, 2 Corinthians 5:11, Revelation 6:15, Revelation 6:16

drive him: Heb. scatter him

to his feet: Leviticus 26:36, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7, Psalms 53:5, Proverbs 28:1

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:16 - terror 1 Samuel 14:15 - there was trembling 1 Samuel 28:5 - he was afraid Job 21:9 - safe from fear Job 27:20 - Terrors Isaiah 33:14 - sinners Daniel 5:9 - greatly Luke 9:7 - Herod 2 Corinthians 7:5 - troubled Hebrews 2:15 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed his face to the ground to show he respected God. But he laughed and said to himself, "I am 100 years old. I cannot have a son, and Sarah is 90 years old. She cannot have a child."
Genesis 17:24
Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised.
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were very old. Sarah was past the right age for women to have children.
Genesis 18:12
So she laughed to herself and said, "I am old, and my husband is old. I am too old to have a baby."
Genesis 18:18
Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on earth will be blessed because of him.
Genesis 18:21
I will go and see if they are as bad as I have heard. Then I will know for sure."
Genesis 31:35
And Rachel said to her father, "Father, don't be angry with me. I am not able to stand up before you. I am having my monthly time of bleeding." So Laban looked through the camp, but he did not find the gods from his house.
Leviticus 15:19
"If a woman has a discharge from her monthly time of bleeding, she will be unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Luke 1:7
But they had no children. Elizabeth could not have a baby, and both of them were very old.
Luke 1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I know that what you say is true? I am an old man, and my wife is also old."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jeremiah 20:3, and all his friends about him; these terrors may be either the terrors of the judges of the earth upon wicked men, who are, or should be, a terror to evildoers, and of whom wicked men are afraid, lest they should be taken and punished by them; to this sense is the note of Sephorno: or else the terrors of a guilty conscience, which drive a man to his wits' end, that he knows not what to do, nor whither to go; these terrify him night and day, and make an hell upon earth unto him; or the terrors of the righteous law of God broken by him, its menaces and curses threatening him with death and everlasting damnation; or the terrors of the judgments of God on earth, which by their forerunners appear to be coming on it, by reason of which men's hearts fail for fear of them; or terrible apprehensions of the wrath of God for sin, here and hereafter, together with the terrors of death, which fall upon them, and of an awful judgment yet to come. Now Bildad had observed, that Job had said some things concerning the terrors he was sometimes possessed of, Job 6:4; and therefore would suggest from hence that he must be a wicked man, since this is the case of such; but it is easy to observe that good men are sometimes surrounded with terrors as well as others, so that this is no proof of a man's character and state, see Psalms 88:15;

and shall drive him to his feet; to take to his feet and run, in order to get rid of his terrors if possible, but in vain; these cause him not to run to God, to his feet, to the throne and footstool of his grace, but from him, to the rocks and mountains to hide him from his wrath, though there is no going from his spirit, nor fleeing from his presence; and terrors will also have such an effect upon wielded men as to cause them to flee from men, as in Cain, who not only went, from the presence of the Lord, but from the society of men, and became a fugitive and vagabond, and afraid of everyone he met with, lest he should kill him; and sometimes wicked men flee when none pursue, and even at the sound of shaking leaf, Proverbs 28:1; or "shall scatter him at his feet" t, either at the feet of the robber, or cause him to fall to the ground, in the place where his feet stood. Mr. Broughton renders it, "shall press him at his feet", shall follow at his heels, and keep close to him wherever he goes, and overtake and seize him.

t הפצהו "dispergent eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Mercerus, Piscator, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. The idea here is substantially the same as that given by Eliphaz, Job 15:21-22.

And shall drive him to his feet - Margin, scatter. This is a literal translation of the Hebrew. The idea is, that he will be alarmed by such terrors; his self-composure will be dissipated, and he will “take to his heels.”


 
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