22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
22 It
22 Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them; they run this way and that, but there's no place to hide -
22 It hurls against him and does not spare; He flees desperately from its power.
22 It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:22
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?