Job 18:4
He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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In Context
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Cross References
Job 5:2For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
Job 14:18And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job 40:8Will you also nullify my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
Ezekiel 9:9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD sees not.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words (o. logos) shall not pass away.
Luke 9:39And, lo, a spirit (o. pneuma) takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it tears him that he foams again, and bruising him hardly 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 →