Job 8:18

Job 8:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
• New International Version (NIV)But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)If he is destroyed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

Context of Job 8:18

16He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden. 17His [godless] roots are wrapped around a pile of rocks, And he gazes at a house of stones. If he is snatched from his place [in the garden], Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ 19Behold, this is the joy of His way; And from out of the dust others will spring up and grow [to take his place]. 20Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He strengthen or support evildoers.

Job 8:18 word by word

אִם־יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּ מִמְּקוֹמ֑וֹ וְכִ֥חֶשׁ בּ֝֗וֹ לֹ֣א רְאִיתִֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If he destroyבָּלַעbâla‛ · to swallow upH1104
• him from his placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• shall denyכָּחַשׁkâchash · to deceiveH3584
• I have not seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200

Cross-references for Job 8:18

• Job 7:10He will not return again to his house, Nor will his place know about him anymore.
• Job 20:9The eye which saw him sees him no longer, Neither does his [accustomed] place behold him any longer.
• Psalms 37:10For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever]; Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].
• Psalms 73:18Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
• Psalms 92:7That though the wicked sprout up like grass And all evildoers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.

Commentaries on Job 8:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18If he destroy him from his place - Is not this a plain reference to the alienation of his inheritance? God destroys him from it; it becomes the property of another; and on his revisiting it, the place, by a striking prosopopoeia, says, "I know thee not; I have never seen thee." This also have I witnessed; I looked on it, felt regret, received instruction, and hasted away.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18If he destroy him from his place - The particle here which is rendered “if (אם 'ı̂m ) is often used to denote emphasis, and means here “certainly” - “he shall be certainly destroyed.” The word rendered destroy, from בלע bela‛ means literally to swallow Job 7:19, to swallow up, to absorb; and hence, to consume, lay waste, destroy. The sense is, that the wicked or the hypocrite shall be wholly destroyed from his place, but the image or figure of the tree is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. If He (God) tear him away (properly, "to tear away rapidly and violently") from his place, "then it [the place personified] shall deny him" (Psa 103:16). The very soil is ashamed of the weeds lying withered on its surface, as though it never had been connected with them. So, when the godless falls from prosperity, his nearest friends disown him.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 8:18

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Endure
• Former
• Hope
• Hypocrite
• Yesterday
• Bildad
• Deny
• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 8

• 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
• EGW Writings