Job 18:20
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
Brenton Septuagint
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
19He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
21These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8And this house, which is high, shall be so that every one that passes + 9:8 Gr. through it.by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
Job 19:13My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognised strangers rather than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
Psalms 137:7Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; thou hast stretched forth thine hands against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand has saved me.
Obadiah 1:11From the day that thou stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
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 →