The Meaning of Job 20:24 Explained

Job 20:24

KJV: He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

YLT: He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

Darby: If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

ASV: He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

Discover Job 20:24

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 20:24?

MEANING: What does Job 20:24 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 20:24 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 20:24?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He shall flee  from the iron  weapon,  [and] the bow  of steel  shall strike him through. 

What does Job 20:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 20:1-29 - "the Triumphing Of The Wicked"
Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29, has vexed him, so that he speaks with impatience.
The theme of Zophar's speech is the brevity of the prosperity of the wicked. He claims that this is an acknowledged principle, Job 20:14-227; then proceeds to show it by many striking metaphors.
Hypocrite, Job 20:5, is "godless" in the r.v.; and in describing the prosperity and speedy destruction of such, Job 20:5-11, he manifestly applies his words to Job. He refuses to pay any heed to Job's protestations of innocence. His theology was: God is righteous; he blesses and prospers the good, and destroys the wicked. Job was being destroyed; therefore Job was wicked. Thus often do we in our ignorance misunderstand God and cruelly misjudge man.
Zophar descends to more particulars. He describes the pleasure which the ungodly has in sin, Job 20:12-13; how his sin becomes his punishment, 1713405015_15; and how terrible destruction at last visits him, Job 20:23-28, as his portion from God, Job 20:29. Though in all this Zophar was wrong in applying it to Job's case, and equally wrong in supposing that this life is the place of judgment for the wicked, yet it is important to remember that he was right in seeing a very real connection between sin and punishment. However sweet sin may be to the taste, it is sure to become bitter as the gall of asps ere long. The "pleasures of sin" are but for a season. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 20

1  Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 20:24 mean?

He will flee from the weapon iron will pierce him through a bow bronze
יִ֭בְרַח מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק בַּרְזֶ֑ל תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ קֶ֣שֶׁת נְחוּשָֽׁה

יִ֭בְרַח  He  will  flee 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּרַח 
Sense: to go through, flee, run away, chase, drive away, put to flight, reach, shoot (extend), hurry away.
מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק  from  the  weapon 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: נֶשֶׁק 
Sense: equipment, weapons, armoury.
בַּרְזֶ֑ל  iron 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּרְזֶל  
Sense: iron.
תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ  will  pierce  him  through 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular, third person masculine singular
Root: חָלַף 
Sense: to pass on or away, pass through, pass by, go through, grow up, change, to go on from.
קֶ֣שֶׁת  a  bow 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: קֶשֶׁת  
Sense: bow.
נְחוּשָֽׁה  bronze 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: נְחוּשָׁה  
Sense: copper, bronze.

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