New Living Translation
Job 18:14
14They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down 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
12Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. 13Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. 15The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses. 16Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
Read all of Job 18Job 18:14 word by word
יִנָּתֵ֣ק מֵ֭אָהֳלוֹ מִבְטַח֑וֹ וְ֝תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 18:14
- Job 8:14Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider’s web.
- Job 11:20But the wicked will be blinded. They will have no escape. Their only hope is death.”
- Psalms 112:10The wicked will see this and be infuriated. They will grind their teeth in anger; they will slink away, their hopes thwarted.
- Proverbs 10:28The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.
- Matthew 7:26But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.
- Job 24:17The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
- Job 41:34Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts.”
- Psalms 55:4My heart pounds in my chest. The terror of death assaults me.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked are crushed by disaster, but the godly have a refuge when they die.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
- Hebrews 2:15Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
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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