Job 18:18-21 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 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness ,.... Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversity; or rather from the light of the living, the light of the present life, to the darkness of death, and the grave, the land of darkness, and of the shadow of death, Job 10:21 ; and even into utter darkness, blackness of darkness, the darkness of hell, eternal darkness; opposed to the light of the divine Presence, and the inheritance of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people ,.... Neither son, nor son's son, or grandson; so the Targum, Jarchi, and Bar Tzemach; that is, he shall be childless, and have no heirs, successors, or survivors, to inherit his estate, bear and perpetuate his name among the people of his country, city, or neighbourhood. Bildad respects no doubt the present case of Job, who had lost all his children; but he was mistaken if he thought he should die so, for he had after this as many... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:20

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day ,.... At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see Psalm 37:13 ; it would be extremely amazing to them how it should be, that a man who was in such flourishing and prosperous circumstances, should be brought at once, he and his family, into such extreme poverty, and into such a distressed and forlorn condition; they should be, as it were, thunderstruck at it, not being able to account for it: by these are meant... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:21

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked ,.... As before described; as that the light should be dark in them; a wicked man's confidence should be rooted out of them; everything shocking and dreadful should dwell in them; brimstone should be scattered on them, they should be utterly consumed, and none remaining in them, Job 18:6 . The Targum represents these as the words of the persons astonished and frightened, who at the sight of such a dismal spectacle should utter them, prefacing... read more

Adam Clarke

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

He shall be driven from light - He shall be taken off by a violent death. And chased out of the world - The wicked is Driven Away in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew - Coverdale, following the Vulgate, translates thus: He shal neither have children ner kynss folk among his people, no ner eny posterite in his countrie: yonge and olde shal be astonyshed at his death. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:20

They that come after him - The young shall be struck with astonishment when they hear the relation of the judgments of God upon this wicked man. As they that went before. The aged who were his contemporaries, and who saw the judgments that fell on him, were affrighted, שער אחזו achazu saar , seized with horror - were horrified; or, as Mr. Good has well expressed it, were panic-struck. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:21

Such are the dwellings - This is the common lot of the wicked; and it shall be particularly the case with him who knoweth not God, that is Job, for it is evident he alludes to him. Poor Job! hard was thy lot, severe were thy sufferings. On the elephant hunt to which I have referred, Job 18:13 , I shall borrow the following account extracted from Mr. Cordiner's History of Ceylon , by Mr. Good: - "We have a curious description of the elephant hunt, which is pursued in a manner not... read more

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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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 18:21

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 18:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 18:1-21

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