Job 18:4
Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
5Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
Cross References
Job 5:2Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
Job 14:18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of 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 Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
Luke 9:39And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he throweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising him, he hardly departeth from him.
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 →