Job 18:4
But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
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In Context
3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
5For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
Cross References
Job 5:2For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
Job 14:18But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
Job 40:8\40:13\Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
Ezekiel 9:9Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
Luke 9:39And see, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he gives a cry, twisted in pain and streaming at the lips, and when it goes away from him at last, he is marked as from blows.
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 →