Job 21:6

     6. remember—Think on it. Can you wonder that I broke out into complaints, when the struggle was not with men, but with the Almighty? Reconcile, if you can, the ceaseless woes of the innocent with the divine justice! Is it not enough to make one tremble? [UMBREIT].

Isaiah 13:8

     8. pangs—The Hebrew means also a "messenger." HORSLEY, therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified." MAURER agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows."

      woman . . . travaileth— (1Th 5:3).

      amazed—the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation.

      faces . . . flames—"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [HORSLEY]; with anguish and indignation.

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