Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
In Context
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
19He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Cross References
Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 10:22The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
Daniel 4:33The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.
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 →