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Legacy Standard Bible

Job 22:10

Therefore snares surround you,And sudden dread terrifies you,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Poor;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Snare;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Widow;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eliphaz (2);   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore snares surround you,and sudden dread terrifies you,
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,
King James Version
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
English Standard Version
Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
New Century Version
That is why traps are all around you and sudden danger frightens you.
New English Translation
That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
Amplified Bible
"Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies and overwhelms you;
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore traps surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you,
World English Bible
Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
Contemporary English Version
That's why you were suddenly trapped by terror,
Complete Jewish Bible
"No wonder there are snares all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
Darby Translation
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Easy-to-Read Version
That is why traps are all around you, and sudden trouble makes you afraid.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear causes you to tremble;
Good News Translation
So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore trapping nets are all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,
Literal Translation
On account of this snares are all around you, and suddenly dread troubles you;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.
American Standard Version
Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,
Bible in Basic English
For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden dread affrighted thee,
King James Version (1611)
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore snares have compassed thee, and disastrous war has troubled thee.
English Revised Version
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
Update Bible Version
Therefore snares are round about you, And sudden fear troubles you,
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore snares [are] around thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
New King James Version
Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,
New Living Translation
That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears.
New Life Bible
So traps are all around you, and much fear comes upon you all at once.
New Revised Standard
Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For this cause, round about thee, are snares, and a dread startleth thee suddenly;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore round about thee [are] snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you,

Contextual Overview

5Is not your evil great,And your iniquities without end? 6For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,And stripped the clothing of the naked. 7To the weary you have given no water to drink,And from the hungry you have withheld bread. 8But the earth belongs to the mighty man,And the highly respected man inhabits it. 9You have sent widows away empty,And the might of the orphans has been crushed. 10Therefore snares surround you,And sudden dread terrifies you, 11Or darkness, so that you cannot see,And an abundance of water covers you. 12"Is not God in the height of heaven?Look also at the distant stars, how high they are! 13You say, ‘What does God know?Can He judge through the dense gloom? 14Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see;And He walks on the vault of heaven.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

snares: Job 18:8-10, Job 19:6, Psalms 11:6

sudden: Job 6:4, Job 13:21, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Reciprocal: Job 34:28 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 22:6
Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and put it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:12
And He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me."
Genesis 22:17
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Genesis 22:21
Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram
Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore snares [are] round about thee,.... Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the things of this world, but punishments; because of the above sins charged upon Job, therefore evils, calamities, and distresses of various kinds, came upon, him, beset him, and encompassed him all around, so that there was no way left for him to escape; it may refer to the Sabeans and Chaldeans seizing on his cattle, and carrying them away; to the fire that fell from heaven upon his sheep, and consumed them; to the great wind that blew down the house in which his children were, and destroyed them; and to the boils and ulcers that were all over his body:

and sudden fear troubleth thee; those things, at least some of them, were what he feared, and they came suddenly upon him, and gave him great trouble and distress, Job 3:25; and present fear frequently, on a sudden, darted into his mind, and gave him fresh trouble; he was afraid of his present sorrows, and of further and future ones, Job 9:28; and perhaps Eliphaz might think he was afraid of hell and damnation, and of sudden destruction from the Almighty coming upon him,

Job 31:23; see Isaiah 24:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore 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 1:0. It was to this, doubtless, that Eliphaz alluded.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:10. Therefore 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 roaring terrible. God hath hunted thee down, as men hunt down those wild and dangerous beasts. See on Job 18:21


 
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