Revised Version 1895
Job 18:18
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 18:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- New International Version (NIV)He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
Context of Job 18:18
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned. 20They that come after shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Read all of Job 18Job 18:18 word by word
יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ מֵא֣וֹר אֶל־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 18:18
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 10:22A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents;
- Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward.
- Jude 1:13Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Daniel 4:33The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:21and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.
Commentaries on Job 18:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18He shall be driven from light - He shall be taken off by a violent death. And chased out of the world - The wicked is Driven Away in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18He shall be driven from light into darkness - Margin, “They shall drive him.” The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity to one of calamity. And chased out of the world - Perhaps meaning that he should not be conducted to the grave with the slow and solemn pomp of a respectful funeral, but in a hurry - as a malefactor is driven from human life, and hastily commited to the earth. The living would be glad to be rid of him, and would…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. 1818. light ... darkness--existence--nonexistence.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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