Job 18:20
The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
19Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8Euen this hie house shall bee so: euery one that passeth by it, shalbe astonied, and shall hisse, and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus vnto this land and to this house?
Job 19:13He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
Psalms 137:7Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.
Jeremiah 50:27Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation.
Obadiah 1:11When thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers caried away his substance, and straungers entred into his gates, and cast lots vpon Ierusalem, euen thou wast as one of them.
Luke 19:44And shall make thee euen with ye ground, and thy children which are in thee, and they shall not leaue in thee a stone vpon a stone, because thou knewest not that season 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 →