Job 18:20
Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
In Context
19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.
Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Obadiah 1:11In the day that thou stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou were as one of them.
Luke 19:44And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:12-21
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up… Read the whole commentary →