Job 18:11 ASV

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 18:11

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-22 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" ( Job 16:2 , Job 16:11 ; Job 17:10 ); and aims at nothing but venting his anger, and terrifying Job by a series of denunciations and threats. Job has become to him "the wicked man" (verses 5, 21), an embodiment of all that is evil, and one "that knoweth not God." No punishment is too severe for him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Bildad to Job: an Arabian orator's discourse. I. THE FAULTY INTRODUCTION . Bildad possessed at least three qualifications indispensable to successful speaking—fervid imagination, glowing eloquence, and vehement passion. He was characterized also by three fatal defects—want of calmness, or self-containment, want of prudence, and want of sympathetic tenderness. Being destitute of these, he blundered like an inexperienced amateur, starting out on his oration in a hurricane of passion and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

Renewed rebukes and warnings. Bildad again replies, mentioning that the passionate outbreaks of Job are useless. He holds fast to his original principle, that, according to the Law of God, the hardened sinner will suddenly meet his doom. And some secret sin, he persists, must be the cause of the present suffering. I. INTRODUCTION : DENUNCIATION OF JOB AS A FOOLISH AND VIOLENT SPEAKER . (Verses 1-4.) He is one who "hunts after words." Let him be truly sensible and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-14

The fruits of impiety. Again Bildad speaks. He is not the sufferer, hut the judge. Be who came as a comforter utters but miserable words in the ears of the afflicted one. His words are true in themselves, but wrongly applied. Justly he describes the fruits of impiety. I. To THE IMPIOUS THE LIGHT OF PROSPERITY IS EXCHANGED FOR THE DARKNESS OF MISFORTUNE . His "lamp is put out." Sorrowfulness, sooner or later, overtakes him. For a time he is in great prosperity;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-21

Bildad, from this point, turns wholly to denunciation. He strings together a long series of menaces—probably ancient saws, drawn from "the wisdom of the Beni Kedem" ( 1 Kings 4:30 ), and descriptive of the wretched fate of the wicked man, with whom he identifies Job. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side . Vague fears, panic terrors, no longer subjective, but to his bewildered brain objective, shall seem to menace the wicked man on every side, and shall affright him continually. There is an allusion, doubtless, to what Job has said of the gloomy and terrifying thoughts which come over him from time to time ( Job 3:25 ; Job 7:14 ; Job 9:28 ; Job 13:21 ) and fill him with consternation. And shall drive him to his feet ; rather, shall chase... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid - He shall be constantly subject to alarms, and shall never feel secure. “Terrors here are represented as allegorical persons, like the Furies in the Greek poets.” Noyes. The idea here is substantially the same as that given by Eliphaz, Job 15:21-22.And shall drive him to his feet - Margin, scatter. This is a literal translation of the Hebrew. The idea is, that he will be alarmed by such terrors; his self-composure will be dissipated, and he will “take to his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 18:11-12

Job 18:11-12. Terrors shall make him afraid Both from men and from God, and also from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. And drive him to his feet Shall force him to flee different ways, being safe nowhere, but pursued by terrors from place to place, which, as Houbigant renders it, shall be spread around his feet. His strength Either his children, who are, and are called a man’s strength, Genesis 49:3; Psalms 127:4, or rather, his wealth, power, and prosperity; shall be... read more

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:5-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 18:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 18:11-12

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