Job 18:20
At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, || And those [in the] east have taken fright.
Literal Standard 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
19He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings.
21Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known.”
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8as for this house [that] is high, everyone passing by it is astonished, and has hissed, and they have said, Why has YHWH done this to this land and to this house?
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
Psalms 137:7Remember, YHWH, for the sons of Edom, || The day of Jerusalem, || Those saying, “Raze, raze to its foundation!”
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her cows, they go down to slaughter, || Woe [is] on them, for their day has come, || The time of their inspection.
Obadiah 1:11In the day of your standing aloof from the opposite [side], || In the day of strangers taking his force captive, || And foreigners have entered his gates, || And have cast a lot for Jerusalem, || Even you [are] as one of them!
Luke 19:44and lay you low, and your children within you, and they will not leave in you a stone on a stone, because you did not know the time of your inspection.”
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 →