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Job 18:14
14He is torn 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
Context of Job 18:14
12Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls. 13It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. 15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling. 16His roots dry up below 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 8:14What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
- Psalms 112:10The wicked will see and be vexed, they will gnash their teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.
- Proverbs 10:28The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
- Matthew 7:26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- Job 24:17For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
- Job 41:34It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”
- Psalms 55:4My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.
- Proverbs 14:32When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
- Hebrews 2:15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery 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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