| Geneva Study Bible By the {f} blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. (f) He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies: for he can do it with the blast of his mouth. Wesley's Notes 4:9 The blast - Of his nostrils, as it follows; by his anger, which in men shews itself, in the nostrils, by hot and frequent breathings there, by a secret, but mighty judgment of God, they are blown away as chaff by the wind. King James Translators' Notes by the breath...: that is, by his anger Scofield Reference Notes Margin breath i.e. by His anger, as Isa 30:33 Ex 15:8 Job 1:19 Job 15:30 Isa 11:4 2Th 2:8. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 9. breath of his nostrils-God's anger; a figure from the fiery winds of the East (Job 1:16; Isa 5:25; Ps 18:8, 15). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 4:7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ec 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day. | 
