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Job 18:11-21

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11 "All around 1terrors frighten him, And 2harry him at every step.
12 "His strength is 3famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 "His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death 4devours his limbs.
14 "He is 5torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of 6terrors.
15 "There dwells in his tent nothing of his; 7Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
16 "His 8roots are dried below *, And his 9branch is cut off above *.
17 "10Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad *.
18 "He is driven from light 11into darkness, And 12chased from the inhabited world.
19 "He has no 13offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
20 "Those in the west are appalled at 14his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.
21 "Surely such are the 15dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
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Job 18:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 18

In this chapter is Bildad's second reply to Job, in which he falls with great fury upon him, very sharply inveighs against him, and very highly charges him; the charges he brings against him are talkativeness and inattention to what was said to him, Job 18:1,2; contempt of his friends, impatience under his affliction, and pride and arrogance, as if the whole world, the course of nature and providence, and God himself all must give way to him, Job 18:3,4; nevertheless, he is assured of the miserable state of a wicked man, sooner or later, which is described by the extinction of his light of prosperity, Job 18:5,6; by the defeat of his counsels, being ensnared in a net laid for him, Job 18:7-10; by the terrible judgments of the sword, famine, and pestilence, by one or the other of which he is brought to death, the king of terrors, Job 18:11-14; by the destruction of his habitation and of his posterity, so that he has none to hear his name, or perpetuate his memory, Job 18:15-17; by his being driven out of the world, leaving no issue behind him, to the astonishment of all that knew him, Job 18:18-20; and the chapter is closed with this observation, that this is the common case of wicked and irreligious persons, Job 18:21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. Job 15:21
  • 2. Job 18:18; Job 20:8
  • 3. Isaiah 8:21
  • 4. Zechariah 14:12
  • 5. Job 8:22; Job 18:6
  • 6. Job 15:21
  • 7. Psalms 11:6
  • 8. Isaiah 5:24; Hosea 9:16; Amos 2:9; Malachi 4:1
  • 9. Job 15:30, 32
  • 10. Job 24:20; Psalms 34:16; Proverbs 10:7
  • 11. Job 5:14; Isaiah 8:22
  • 12. Job 20:8; Job 27:21-23
  • 13. Job 27:14, 15; Isaiah 14:22
  • 14. Psalms 37:13; Jeremiah 50:27; Obadiah 12
  • 15. Job 21:28

Footnotes 9

  • [a]. Heb "It eats parts of his skin"
  • [b]. Or "parts"
  • [c]. Lit "his tent his trust"
  • [d]. Or "you or she shall march"
  • [e]. A suggested reading is "Fire dwells in his tent"
  • [f]. Lit "They drive him...And chase him"
  • [g]. Lit "who come after"
  • [h]. Lit "day"
  • [i]. Lit "who have gone before"
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