| Geneva Study Bible Trouble and {p} anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. (p) He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him, that is, terror of conscience and outward afflictions. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 24. prevail-break upon him suddenly and terribly, as a king, &c. (Pr 6:11). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 15:17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ? | 
