Job 18:4
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger! Must the earth be deserted for thee, And the rock removed from its place?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?
5Behold, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the flame of his fire shall not shine.
Cross References
Job 5:2Verily grief destroyeth the fool, And wrath consumeth the weak man.
Job 14:18As the mountain falling cometh to nought, And the rock is removed from its place;
Job 40:8Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?
Ezekiel 9:9And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, “Jehovah hath forsaken the land”; and, “Jehovah seeth not.”
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Luke 9:39and lo! a spirit seizeth him, and suddenly crieth out, and convulseth him so that he foameth, and it departeth from him hardly, taking away all his strength.
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 →