Teks -- Job 38:23 (NET)

38:23 which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

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Wesley: Job 38:23 - Trouble

When I intend to bring trouble upon any people for their sins.

JFB: Job 38:23 - against the time of trouble

The time when I design to chastise men (Exo 9:18; Jos 10:11; Rev 16:21; Isa 28:17; Psa 18:12-13; Hag 2:17).

Clarke: Job 38:23 - Reserved against the time of trouble

Reserved against the time of trouble - לעת צר leeth tsar , "to the season of strictness,"i.e., the season when the earth is constringed or bound by the frost

Clarke: Job 38:23 - Against the day of battle and war?

Against the day of battle and war? - Hailstones being often employed as instruments of God’ s displeasure against his enemies, and the enemies of his people. There is probably an allusion here to the plague of hail sent on the Egyptians. See Exo 9:23 (note), and the notes there, for more particulars concerning hailstones, remarkable showers of them, etc. There may be also a reference to Jos 10:10-11 (note), where a destructive shower of what are called hailstones fell upon the Canaanitish kings who fought against Israel. See the note there also.

TSK: Job 38:23

Job 36:31, Job 36:13; Exo 9:18, Exo 9:24; Jos 10:11; Isa 30:30; Eze 13:11-13; Mat 7:27; Rev 16:21

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Poole: Job 38:23 - Which // Against the time of trouble

Which i.e. which snow, and especially hail.

Against the time of trouble i.e. when I intend to bring trouble or calamity upon any country or people for their sins, or for their trial. Or, against the time of the enemy , i.e. when I intend to punish mine or my people’ s enemies, and to fight against them with these weapons; of which see instances Exo 9:14 Jos 10:11 . Compare 1Sa 7:10 Job 36:31 Isa 30:30 .

Haydock: Job 38:23 - War

War. Hail, &c., are like the arrows of God, Jeremias x. 13., and l. 25. (Calmet)

Gill: Job 38:23 - Which I have reserved against the time of trouble // against the day of battle and war

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,.... For the punishment or affliction of men; and is explained as follows,

against the day of battle and war? as his artillery and ammunition to light his enemies with. Of hail we have instances in Scripture, as employed against the Egyptians and Canaanites, Exo 9:25; and of a reserve of it in the purposes of God, and in prophecy against the day of battle with antichrist, Rev 16:21; and so Jarchi interprets it here of the war of Gog and Magog. And though there are no instances of snow being used in this way in Scripture, yet there is in history. Strabo ^s reports, that at Corzena and Cambysena, which join to Mount Caucasus, such snows have fallen, that whole companies of men have been swallowed up in them; and even armies have been overwhelmed with them, as the army of the Gauls ^t; and such quantities have been thrown down from mountains, on which they have been lodged, that towns, towers, and villages, have been laid prostrate by them ^u; and in the year 443, a vast snow destroyed many ^w. Frequently do we hear in our parts of the disasters occasioned by them. The Targum particularly makes mention of snow; and renders it, "which snow I have reserved", &c. though absurdly applies it to punishment in hell.