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Job 3:25
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For the thing I feared has overtaken me,and what I dreaded has happened to me.
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
Everything I feared and dreaded has happened to me.
For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
"For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread encounters me.
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing yt I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
For the dread that I dread comes upon me,And what I am afraid of befalls me.
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
and my worst fears have all come true.
I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming."
For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
I was afraid something terrible would happen, and what I feared most has happened.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has befallen me.
Everything I fear and dread comes true.
because the dread that I feel has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.
For the dreadful thing I dreaded has come on me; and that which I feared has come to me.
For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thynge that I was afrayed of, is happened vnto me.
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me,
For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
For the drede, which Y dredde, cam to me; and that, that Y schamede, bifelde.
For the thing which I fear comes on me, And that which I am afraid of comes to me.
For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.
What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true.
What I was afraid of has come upon me. What filled me with fear has happened.
Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
"For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the thing: etc. Heb. I feared a fear and it came upon me, that which Job 1:5, Job 31:23
Reciprocal: Job 4:5 - it is come Job 30:26 - When I looked Proverbs 10:24 - fear Isaiah 38:17 - for peace I had great bitterness Ezekiel 11:8 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,.... Some refer this to his fears about his children, lest they should sin and offend God, and bring down his judgments on them, and now what he feared was come to pass, Job 1:5; others take in all his sorrows and troubles; which, through the changeableness of the world, and the uncertainty of all things in it, and the various providences of God, he feared would come upon him at one time or another; and this he mentions to justify his expostulation, why light and life should be continued to such a man, who, by reason of his fear and anxiety of mind, never had any pleasure in his greatest prosperity, destruction from the Almighty being a terror to him; Job 31:23; but I think it is not reasonable to suppose that a man of Job's faith in God, and trust in him, should indulge such fears to such a degree; nor indeed that he could ever entertain such a thought in him, nor even surmise that such shocking calamities and distresses should come upon him as did: but this is to be understood not of his former life, in prosperity, but of the beginning of his afflictions; when he heard of the loss of one part of his substance, he was immediately possessed with a fear of losing another; and when he heard of that, he feared the loss of a third, and even of all; then of his children, and next of his health:
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me: which designs the same, in other words, or a new affliction; and particularly the ill opinion his friends had of him; he feared that through these uncommon afflictions he should be reckoned an ungodly man, an hypocrite; and as he feared, so it was; this he perceived by the silence of his friends, they not speaking one word of comfort to him; and by their looks at him, and the whole of their behaviour to him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the thing which I greatly feared - Margin, As in the Hebrew “I feared a fear, and it came upon me.” This verse, with the following, has received a considerable variety of exposition. Many have understood it as referring to his whole course of life, and suppose that Job meant to say that he was always apprehensive of some great calamity, such as that which had now come upon him, and that in the time of his highest prosperity be had lived in continual alarm lest his property should be taken. away, and lest he should be reduced to penury and suffering. This is the opinion of Drusius and Codurcus. In reply to this, Schultens has remarked, that such a supposition is contrary to all probability; that there was no reason to apprehend that such calamities as he now suffered, would come upon him; that they were so unusual that they could not have been anticipated; and that, thercfore, the alarm here spoken of, could not refer to the general tenor of his life.
That seems to have been happy and calm, and perhaps, if anything, too tranquil and secure. Most interpreters suppose that it refers to the state in which he was “during” his trial, and that it is designed to describe the rapid succession of his woes. Such is the interpretation of Rosenmuller, Schultens, Drs. Good, Noyes, Gill, and others. According to this, it means that his calamities came on him in quick succession. He had no time after one calamity to become composed before another came. When he heard of one misfortune, he naturally dreaded another, and they came on with overwhelming rapidity. If this be the correct interpretation, it means that the source of his lamentation is not merely the greatness of his losses and his trials considered in the “aggregate,” but the extraordinary rapidity with which they succeeded each other, thus rendering them much more difficult to be borne; see Job 1:0: He apprehended calamity, and it came suddenly.
When one part of his property was taken, he had deep apprehensions respecting the rest; when all his property was seized or destroyed, he had alarm about his children; when the report came that they were dead, he feared some other affliction still. The sentiment is in accordance with human nature, that when we are visited with severe calamity in one form, we naturally dread it in another. The mind becomes exquisitely sensitive. The affections cluster around the objects of attachment which are left, and they become dear to us. When one child is taken away, our affections cling more closely to the one which survives, and any little illness alarms us, and the value of one object of affection is more and more increased - like the Sybil’s leaves - as another is removed. It is an instinct of our nature, too, to apprehend calamity in quick succession when one comes “Misfortunes seldom come alone;” and when we suffer the loss of one endeared object, we instinctively feel that there may be a succession of blows that will remove all our comforts from us. Such seems to have been the apprehension of Job.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:25. For the thing which I greatly reared — Literally, the fear that I feared; or, l feared a fear, as in the margin. While I was in prosperity I thought adversity might come, and I had a dread of it. I feared the loss of my family and my property; and both have occurred. I was not lifted up: I knew that what I possessed I had from Divine Providence, and that he who gave might take away. I am not stripped of my all as a punishment for my self-confidence.
