Job 18:14
Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
In Context
13Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
Cross References
Job 8:22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
Job 24:17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
Psalms 55:4be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
Proverbs 10:28The expectation of the just is joy; but the hope of the wicked shall perish.
Matthew 7:26And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,
Hebrews 2:15And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.
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 →