Job 18:11
All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
In Context
10The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.
12His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And regarding those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from the sword; and they shall fall with none pursuing.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, the noise of a large army: and they said one to the other, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.
Job 20:25He draweth it, and it cometh out of the body; yea, out of his gall the glittering [arrow] cometh forth: over him come the terrors [of death].
Job 27:20Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.
Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they perish, they come to their end with terrific events.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:6-11
Miserable Condition of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground,… Read the whole commentary →