Job 18:20

Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.

Leeser Tanakh

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 will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

21Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:8And at this house, [which] should be so exalted, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and men will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

Job 19:13My brothers hath he removed far from me, and my acquaintance are entirely estranged from me.

Psalms 137:7Remember, O Lord, unto the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to her very foundation.

Jeremiah 50:27Destroy all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: Woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Obadiah 1:11On the day that thou stoodest on the other side, on the day that strangers carried away captive his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots over Jerusalem, also thou wast as any 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 →

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