Job 5:22 - Exposition

At destruction (rather, devastation ) and famine ; rather, dearth. The word is not the same as that used in Job 5:20 , but a weaker cue. Thou shalt laugh; "Thou shalt smile " (Lee). Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth . "The beasts of the earth"— i.e. destructive and ferocious wild beasts, like the Indian "man-eaters"—are enumerated among God's "four sore plagues". In ancient times they were sometimes so numerous in a country that men were afraid to occupy it.