Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be amazed at his fate, As they that were before them were struck with horror.
Noyes Bible
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 hath no son, nor kinsman among his people, Nor any survivor in his dwelling-place.
21Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!
Cross References
Job 19:13My brethren he hath put far from me, And my acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD! against the children of Edom The day of the calamity of Jerusalem! Who said, “Raze it, Raze it to its foundations!”
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe unto them, For their day is come, The time of their punishment!
Obadiah 1:11In the day when thou stoodest over against him, In the day when strangers carried away captive his forces, And when foreigners entered his gates, And when they cast lots upon Jerusalem, Thou also wast as one of them.
Luke 19:44and will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
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 →