Job 18:4
Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Cross References
Job 5:2For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Job 14:18But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
Job 40:8Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?
Ezekiel 9:9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, LORD has forsaken the land, and LORD does not see.
Matthew 24:35The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
Luke 9:39And lo, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him with foaming. And it departs from him difficultly, injuring him.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:2-5
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was… Read the whole commentary →