Job 5:20-22

20. power— (Jer 5:12). Hebrew, "hands."

of the sword— (Eze 35:5, Margin). Hands are given to the sword personified as a living agent.

21. (Ps 31:20; Jer 18:18). Smite (Psalm 73. 9).

22. famine thou shalt laugh—Not, in spite of destruction and famine, which is true (Hab 3:17, 18), though not the truth meant by Eliphaz, but because those calamities shall not come upon thee. A different Hebrew word from that in Job 5:20; there, famine in general; here, the languid state of those wanting proper nutriment [BARNES].