Job 18:11, 22:11, 21 | JFB | STEP | 11. Terrors —often mentioned in this book ( ; &c.). The terrors excited through an evil conscience are here personified. "Magor-missabib" ( ). drive . . . to his feet —rather, "shall pursue" (literally, "scatter," ) him close "at his heels" (literally, "immediately after his feet," ; Hebrew ). The image is that of a pursuing conqueror who scatters the enemy [UMBREIT ].

Job 18:11

11. Terrors—often mentioned in this book (Job 18:14; 24:17; &c.). The terrors excited through an evil conscience are here personified. "Magor-missabib" (Jer 20:3).

drive . . . to his feet—rather, "shall pursue" (literally, "scatter," Hab 3:14) him close "at his heels" (literally, "immediately after his feet," Hab 3:5; 1Sa 25:42; Hebrew). The image is that of a pursuing conqueror who scatters the enemy [UMBREIT].

Job 22:11

11. that—so that thou.

abundance—floods. Danger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; 27:20).

Job 22:21

21. Eliphaz takes it for granted, Job is not yet "acquainted" with God; literally, "become a companion of God." Turn with familiar confidence to God.

and be—So thou shalt be: the second imperatively expresses the consequence of obeying the first (Ps 37:27).

peace—prosperity and restoration to Job; true spiritually also to us (Ro 5:1; Col 1:20).

good— (1Ti 4:8).