Job 18:4
You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
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In Context
3Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
5Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?
Cross References
Job 5:2Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.
Job 14:18A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place.
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
Ezekiel 9:9And he said to me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Judah, is vast and exceedingly great, and the land has been filled with blood, and the city has been filled with what is abhorrent. For they have said: ‘The Lord has forsaken the earth,’ and, ‘The Lord does not see.’
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 9:39And behold, a spirit takes hold of him, and he suddenly cries out, and it throws him down and convulses him, so that he foams. And though it tears him apart, it leaves him only with difficulty.
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 →