Job 18:21
Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
In Context
20At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
Cross References
Judges 2:10and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:9'And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.
Job 21:14And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Psalms 79:6Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.
Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
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 →