24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
24 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
24 As they run for their lives from one disaster, they run smack into another.
24 He will flee from the iron weapon; A bronze bow will pierce him through.
24 When they try to escape an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 20:24
Commentary on Job 20:23-29
(Read Job 20:23-29)
Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful.