Job 20:25 He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;

English Standard Version
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.

New American Standard Bible
"It is drawn forth and comes out of his back, Even the glittering point from his gall. Terrors come upon him,

King James Bible
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him.

International Standard Version
It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

American Standard Version
He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.

Darby Bible Translation
He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Young's Literal Translation
One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

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

25. It is drawn—Rather, "He (God) draweth (the sword, Jos 5:13) and (no sooner has He done so, than) it cometh out of (that is, passes right through) the (sinner's) body" (De 32:41, 42; Eze 21:9, 10). The glittering sword is a happy image for lightning.

gall—that is, his life (Job 16:13). "Inflicts a deadly wound."

terrors—Zophar repeats Bildad's words (Job 17:11; Ps 88:16; 55:4).