Job 18:20
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter; woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Obadiah 1:11In the day that thou didst stand aloof, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou 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 →