Amplified Bible
Job 18:14
14He is torn from his tent which he trusted [for safety], And he is marched and brought to the king of terrors (death).
Job 18:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
- New International Version (NIV)He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors.
Context of Job 18:14
12The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened, And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops]. 13His skin is devoured by disease; The firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] consumes his limbs. He is torn from his tent which he trusted [for safety], And he is marched and brought to the king of terrors (death). 15Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it]. 16The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below, And above, his branch is cut off and withers.
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יִנָּתֵ֣ק מֵ֭אָהֳלוֹ מִבְטַח֑וֹ וְ֝תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 18:14
- Job 8:14For his confidence is fragile and breaks, And his trust is [like] a spider’s web.
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they will not escape [the justice of God]; And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”
- Psalms 112:10The wicked will see it and be angered, He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death]; The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.
- Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous [those of honorable character and integrity] is joy, But the expectation of the wicked [those who oppose God and ignore His wisdom] comes to nothing.
- Matthew 7:26And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be like a foolish (stupid) man who built his house on the sand.
- Job 24:17For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight]; For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
- Job 41:34He looks on everything that is high [without terror]; He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”
- Psalms 55:4My heart is in anguish within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing, But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
- Hebrews 2:15and [that He] might free all those who through [the haunting] fear of death were held in slavery throughout their lives.
Commentaries on Job 18:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14His confidence shall be rooted out - His dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shah now he deemed utterly insecure. And it shall bring him to the king of terrors - Or, as Mr. Good translates, "And dissolution shall invade him as a monarch." He shall be completely and finally overpowered. The phrase king of terrors has been generally thought to mean death; but it is not used in any such way in the text. For בלהות למלך lemelech ballahoth, to the king…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle - Security shall forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms. There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and all that he relied on as sources of safety shall have fled. And it shall bring him - That is, he shall be brought. To the king of terrors - There has been much variety in the explanation of this verse. Dr. Noyes renders it, “Terror pursues him like a king.” Dr…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. confidence--all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness, children, fortune, &c., referring to Job's losses. rooted out--suddenly torn away, it shall bring--that is, he shall be brought; or, as Umbreit better has, "Thou (God) shalt bring him slowly." The Hebrew expresses, "to stride slowly and solemnly." The godless has a fearful death for long before his eyes, and is at last taken by it. Alluding to Job's case. The King of terrors, not like…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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