| Geneva Study Bible He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. Wesley's Notes 20:24 Flee - From the sword or spear; and so shall think him self out of danger. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 24. steel-rather, "brass." While the wicked flees from one danger, he falls into a greater one from an opposite quarter [Umbreit]. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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, Isa 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. | 
