Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
19His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.
21These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house:
Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
Psalms 137:7Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah 50:27Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Obadiah 1:11In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.
Luke 19:44And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee: and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy 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 →