Job 18:20
People of the west are appalled at what happens to them. People of the east are shocked.
Free Bible Version
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
19They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.
21This is what happens to the homes of the wicked, to the places of those who reject God.”
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8This Temple will become a pile of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, ‘Why has the Lord acted in such a way to this land and this Temple?’
Job 19:13He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
Psalms 137:7Lord, please remember what the people of Edom did on the day Jerusalem fell, the ones who said “Tear it down! Destroy it down to its foundations!”
Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls with the sword; let them be slaughtered. What a disaster for them, because their time has come when they're punished.
Obadiah 1:11On that day you stood aside, on that day strangers plundered their wealth and foreigners entered their gates, and divided up Jerusalem by casting lots—and you were like one of them.
Luke 19:44They will smash you to the ground, you and your children within you. They won't leave one stone on another within you, for you refused to accept salvation when it came to you.”
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 →