Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Cross References
Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Job 14:18But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Luke 9:39A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from 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 →