Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 18:20
Render, 'They of the west shall be astonished at his day (i.e. fate), and horror shall seize those on the east.' His name will be a byword throughout the world.
Render, 'They of the west shall be astonished at his day (i.e. fate), and horror shall seize those on the east.' His name will be a byword throughout the world.
Verse Job 18:20. _THEY THAT COME AFTER_ HIM] The _young_ shall be struck with astonishment when they hear the relation of the judgments of God upon this wicked man. _As they that went before_. The _a...
THEY THAT COME AFTER HIM - Future ages; they who may hear of his history and of the manner in which he was cut off from life. So the passage has been generally rendered; so, substantially, it is by Dr...
CHAPTER 18 BILDAD'S SECOND ADDRESS _ 1. New reproaches (Job 18:1)_ 2. Once again, the wicked and what they deserve (Job 18:5) Job 18:1. Bildad has the good sense in this second oration to be very br...
JOB 18. SECOND SPEECH OF BILDAD.Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, however,...
DAY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the thing done in the day: i.e. his fall....
The disastrous end of the wicked, in the moral order of the world, is certain The last verse naturally led over to this idea, which is the theme of the speech. The idea is set out in a great variety...
Men's horror of his fate and memory. Bildad now introduces the moral instinct of mankind and the part it takes in the sinner's downfall. The words go back somewhat on the ideas of the previous verses...
_They that come after him_ The word "him" must be omitted; the expression refers to the later generations of men, as _they that went before_does to the earlier, those nearer the sinner's day, but, of...
AS THEY THAT WENT BEFORE WERE AFFRIGHTED— _As his elders were seized with horror._ The plain meaning of the verse seems to be, "His elders, who saw so signal an instance of divine vengeance, were seiz...
TEXT 18:5-21 5 YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, And the spark of the fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. 7 The step...
_THEY THAT COME AFTER HIM SHALL BE ASTONIED AT HIS DAY, AS THEY THAT WENT BEFORE WERE AFFRIGHTED._ After... before - rather, 'those in the West-those in the East' - i:e., all people; literally, those...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 18 BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH...
Job thought that his troubles had some good effects (Job 17:8-9). Bildad did not believe this. A wicked man’s death may upset everyone. But a wicked man’s death would not help anybody. Bildad said th...
Bildad’s only idea in this chapter was that a wicked man is never successful. Bildad did not actually say that Job was wicked. But Bildad clearly had this opinion....
SHALL BE ASTONIED AT HIS DAY. — That is, his doom, or destiny. He shall stand forth as a warning and monument to all....
עַל ־יֹ֖ומֹו נָשַׁ֣מּוּ אַחֲרֹנִ֑ים וְ֝ קַדְמֹנִ֗ים...
XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished _ mashal_, this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less, in its c...
“CAST INTO A NET” Job 18:1 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were _snares_ to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep t...
Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done t...
They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his (n) day, as they that went before were affrighted. (n) When they will see what came to him....
_Them. Literally, "the first," who were witnesses of his misery. (Haydock)_...
(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEY THAT COME AFTER [HIM] SHALL BE ASTONISHED AT HIS DAY,.... At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see Psalms 37:13; it would be extremely amazing to them how it should be,...
They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. Ver. 20. _They that come after him shall be astonied at his day_] Future ages, hearing the relation...
_They that come after him_ And hear the report of it, _shall be astonied at his day_ The day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness and dreadfulness of it. _As they that went befor...
They that come after him, the people of the West, SHALL BE ASTONIED AT HIS DAY, horrified at the doom of destruction which came upon him, AS THEY THAT WENT BEFORE, the people of the East, WERE AFFRIGH...
BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...
BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered Job's...
WENT BEFORE: Or, lived with him WERE AFRIGHTED: _ Heb._ laid hold on horror...
Such. fate would appall people everywhere....
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 everl...
AT HIS DAY, i.e. at the day of his destruction, as the word day is used, PSALMS 37:13, PSALMS 137:7 EZEKIEL 21:25 OBADIAH 1:12. They shall
Job 18:20 west H314 astonished H8074 (H8738) day H3117 east H6931 frightened H270 (H8804) H8178 astonied -
CONTENTS: Bildad's second discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is a way of fear and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of consc...
Job 18:6. _The light shall be dark in his tabernacle._ Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Isaiah...
_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ THE DANGER OF DENOUNCING WICKEDNESS How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of sin....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:1 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. Job 18:2): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:14 Bildad refers throughout these verses to the destruction of both the house and the household of the wicked (both of which Job has endured; Job 1:13) to assert that Job’s circumst...
_BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH_ Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, of c...
EXPOSITION JOB 18:1 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first (Job 8:1.). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" (Job 16:2,...
Then answered Bildad (Job 18:1), So this is Bildad's second discourse with him. How long will it be before you make an end of words? just make the mark, and afterwards we will speak. Why do you count...
1 Kings 9:8; Deuteronomy 29:23; Deuteronomy 29:24; Ezekiel 21:25;...
Astonied — At the day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness of it. Before — Before the persons last mentioned. Those who lived in the time and place where this j...