Job 5:20-22 | JFB | STEP | 20. power-- ( ). Hebrew, "hands." of the sword-- ( , Margin). Hands are given to the sword personified as a living agent.

‏ Job 5:20-22

20. power--(Jr 5:12). Hebrew, "hands."

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

21. (Psa 31:20; Jr 18:18). Smite (Psalm 73. 9).

22. famine thou shalt laugh--Not, in spite of destruction and famine, which is true (Ha 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].