Job 18:20
The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.
Catholic Public Domain 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
21And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8And this house will become an example: anyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and he will hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord acted in this way to this land and to this house?’
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.
Psalms 137:7If I wander into the midst of tribulation, you will revive me. For you extended your hand against the wrath of my enemies. And your right hand has accomplished my salvation.
Jeremiah 50:27Scatter all her strong ones. Let them descend to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has arrived, the time of their visitation.
Obadiah 1:11In the day when you stood against him, when strangers seized his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and they cast lots over Jerusalem: you also were just like one of them.
Luke 19:44And they will knock you down to the ground, with your sons who are in you. And they will not leave stone upon stone within you, because you did not recognize the time of your 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 →