Job 18:4
He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Cross References
Job 5:2For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,
Job 14:18And yet, a falling mountain wastes away, and a rock is removed from its place.
Job 40:8Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be righteous?
Ezekiel 9:9And He says to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very, very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city has been full of perverseness, for they have said: YHWH has forsaken the land, and YHWH is not seeing.
Matthew 24:35The heaven and the earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
Luke 9:39and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it convulses him, with foaming, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him,
Matthew Henry on Job 18:2-5
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was… Read the whole commentary →