Job 18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:6

The light shall the dark in his tabernacle ,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light that is in a man becomes darkness", as our Lord says, "how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:23 ; but best of all it designs the light of prosperity in his house and family, which should be quite obscured: and his candle shall be put out with him ; which sometimes signifies the spirit of man, his rational... 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

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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

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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

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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

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:12

His strength shall be hungerbitten ,.... Or "shall be famine" F21 רעב "fames", Beza. , or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly weakens thee natural strength of men; want of food will soon bring down the strength of the strongest man, when the stay and the staff, the sustenance and support of man's nature is taken from him: many of the Jewish writers, by "his strength", understand his children, who are, as Jacob said of Reuben, his might, and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:13

It shall devour the strength of his skin ,.... Or "the bars of his skin" F24 בדי עורו "vectes cutis suae", Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens, Michaelis. , the strength and support of his body, for which his skin may be put, as the bones; or "the branches of his skin" F25 "Ramos cutis", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Mercerus, Schmidt; "ramos corporis ipsius", Cocceius. , the veins, which like so many branches run under, and may be seen through the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:14

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle ,.... That which his confidence was placed in, his wealth and riches, his family, particularly his children, in all which he placed his confidence of future prosperity and happiness; these should be all taken away from him, and his house cleared of them all; or his good, sound, and healthful constitution, on account of which he promised himself long life, this he should be deprived of, and it should be taken out of the tabernacle of his... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:15

It shall dwell in his tabernacle ,.... What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are made; the Targum is, "his wife shall dwell in a tabernacle not his;' and to the same purpose Jarchi; as if it was one part of the punishment of a wicked man, that he should leave a widow behind him, and no house of his own for her to dwell in; but this is the case of the widows of many good men, who themselves, in their lifetime, have no houses... read more

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