Therefore snares [are] round about thee
Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward
corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the things of this
world, but punishments; because of the above sins charged upon
Job, therefore evils, calamities, and distresses of various
kinds, came upon, him, beset him, and encompassed him all around,
so that there was no way left for him to escape; it may refer to
the Sabeans and Chaldeans seizing on his cattle, and carrying
them away; to the fire that fell from heaven upon his sheep, and
consumed them; to the great wind that blew down the house in
which his children were, and destroyed them; and to the boils and
ulcers that were all over his body:
and sudden fear troubleth thee;
those things, at least some of them, were what he feared, and
they came suddenly upon him, and gave him great trouble and
distress, ( Job 3:25 ) ( 4:5 ) ; and present fear
frequently, on a sudden, darted into his mind, and gave him fresh
trouble; he was afraid of his present sorrows, and of further and
future ones, ( Job 9:28 ) ; and perhaps
Eliphaz might think he was afraid of hell and damnation, and of
sudden destruction from the Almighty coming upon him, ( Job 31:23 ) ; see (
Isaiah
24:17 Isaiah 24:18
) .