Job 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

English Standard Version
He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.

New American Standard Bible
"He may flee from the iron weapon, But the bronze bow will pierce him.

King James Bible
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.

International Standard Version
Though he dodges an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him.

American Standard Version
He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

Darby Bible Translation
If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Young's Literal Translation
He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

20:23-29 Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isa 32:2. Zophar concludes, This is the portion of a wicked man from God; it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

24. steel—rather, "brass." While the wicked flees from one danger, he falls into a greater one from an opposite quarter [Umbreit].