Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 18:20

20. They that come after him shall be astonied at his day , as they that went before were affrighted .

i. e. At the day of his destruction, as the word day is used, Psal. 37. 13. & 137. 7. Ezek. 21. 25. Obad. 12. They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness, and prodigiousness of it, as Iob's Friends were at his Calamities, Ch. 2. 12, 13.

i. e. Before the persons last mentioned. Those who lived in the time and place where this judgment was inflicted.

Or, filled with horrour, partly through Humanity and Compassion, and partly for Fear, lest the Judgment should overtake them also.

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