What Does Job 22:10 Mean in the King James?
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The trap closes from two directions at once: snares surround you, while sudden alarm disorients you from within.
THE MEANING
This line names the experience of feeling enclosed by threats while fear arrives all at once and unsettles you. The danger crowds from around; the alarm moves through you before you can steady your response.
THE ROOT
וִיבַהֶלְךָ
waybahalkha
GROWS FROM
בהל
To be dismayed or hurried; in this verb form, to alarm or terrify someone.
The verb rendered “troubleth” is וִיבַהֶלְךָ (waybahalkha, and it alarms you), from בהל (bahal), a root of dismay and haste. Its branches describe people being dismayed and a person hurrying, so the fear here does more than hurt: it agitates and accelerates the one it catches.
ALSO GROWS
nivhalu: Were dismayed or alarmed.
נִבְהֲלוּ
This same root describes Joseph’s brothers as so startled they cannot answer, showing fear disrupting speech.
nivhal: Hurries or rushes.
נִבְהָל
The root also carries haste, showing how alarm can speed a person into response.
THE PATTERN
When a threat overwhelms the moment, fear appears as something that seizes perception and unsettles response.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.THE THREAD
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.Both verses use פחד (pachad, fear or dread). Job 4:14 pairs that fear with trembling through the bones; here it arrives suddenly while snares press in from every side.
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