Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
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In Context
3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
5“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
Cross References
Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Job 14:18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Ezekiel 9:9Then 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 perversion; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn’t see.’
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Luke 9:39Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams; and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
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 →