Job 18:4
(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
Cross References
Job 5:2For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
Job 14:18And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.
Job 40:8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
Ezekiel 9:9And He saith unto me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.
Matthew 24:35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 9:39and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising 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 →