New English Translation
Job 18:14
14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
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
12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side. 13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs. He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors. 15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered. 16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
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יִנָּתֵ֣ק מֵ֭אָהֳלוֹ מִבְטַח֑וֹ וְ֝תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 18:14
- Job 8:14whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”
- Psalms 112:10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.
- Matthew 7:26Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- Job 24:17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
- Job 41:34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”
- Psalms 55:4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
- Hebrews 2:15and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.
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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