Job 18:4
Anger has possessed thee: 1 For what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? 1 Or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations? 1
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3For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes? 1
5But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, 1 And their flame shall not go up. 1
Cross References
Job 5:2For wrath destroys the foolish one, 1 And envy slays him that has gone astray. 1
Job 14:18And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, 1 And a rock shall be worn out of its place. 1
Job 40:8Do not set aside my judgment: 1 And dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous? 1
Ezekiel 9:9Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it.
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 →