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Job 5:21

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 5:21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue (comp. ). God will also protect his own from "the scourge of the tongue," i.e. from calumny, from abuse, from bitter words (see the comment on ).

Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh; rather, of devastation. "Shod ( שׁוֹר) populationes, praedationes, calamitosas tempestates, terrae motus, ruinas, incendia, mala omnia vasti-tatem inducentia, amplectitur" (Schultens).

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