ヨブ記 18:7-11 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:5-10

The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered?that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men's ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly made thus miserable in this world; nor is it true that all who are brought into great distress and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:11-21

Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God's wrath (Job 18:11, 12): Terror shall make him afraid on every side. The terrors of his own conscience shall haunt him, so that he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened ,.... As a man in health can take large and strong steps, and travel in the greatness of his strength; so in prosperity he can and does take large steps in obtaining fame and reputation among men, in amassing substance to himself, and towards settling his family in the world; he is like one in a large place, and walks at liberty, goes in and out at pleasure, and none can control him; he walks in pride, and with an high and lifted up head, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet ,.... He goes into it of himself, incautious and imprudent; the counsels, schemes, and methods he takes to hurt others, issue in his own ruin; the pit he digs for them, he falls and sinks into himself; and the net which he has spread and hid for others, in it is his own foot taken; and the ways and means he takes to do himself good, to amass riches and advance his family, being illicit ones, prove snares and nets unto him, those leading him into many... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:9

The gin shall take him by the heel ,.... And hold him fast, so that he shall not be able to get away, especially out of such as are set by God himself; for God has his nets, and snares, and gins for wicked men, and such plenty of them, that he even is said to rain them on them; yea, he himself is a gin and a snare unto them, and out of his hands there is no escaping, wherefore it is a terrible thing to fall into them, see Ezekiel 12:13 ; and the robber shall prevail against him ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:10

The snare is laid for him in the ground ,.... Or "hidden" F18 טמון "absconditus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, &c.; there; for, as Solomon says, "in vain the net is spread in sight of any bird", Proverbs 1:17 ; and in vain it is to lay a snare publicly in the sight or creature, it will not then come near it, but shun and avoid it; and therefore it is laid underground, or hid in the earth, or in some private place, where the creature it is designed for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side ,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jeremiah 20:3 , and all his friends about him; these terrors may be either the terrors of the judges of the earth upon wicked men, who are, or should be, a terror to evildoers, and of whom wicked men are afraid, lest they should be taken and punished by them; to this sense is the note of Sephorno: or else the terrors of a guilty conscience, which drive... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:7

The steps of his strength - Even in his greatest prosperity he shall be in straits and difficulties. His own counsel - He shall be the dupe and the victim of his own airy, ambitious, and impious schemes. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net - His own conduct will infallibly bring him to ruin. He shall be like a wild beast taken in a net; the more he flounces in order to extricate himself, the more he shall be entangled. He walketh upon a snare - He is continually walking on the meshes of a net, by which he must soon be entangled and overthrown. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:9

The gin shall take him - Houbigant reads the tenth before the ninth verse, thus: "The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him." From the beginning of the seventh verse to the end of the thirteenth there is an allusion to the various arts and methods practiced in hunting. 1. A number of persons extend themselves in a forest, and drive the game before them, still straitening the space from... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:5-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 18:11-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:9

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