Job 18:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. ”

• Job 18:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle - Security shall forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms. There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and a...

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• Job 18:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the (i) king of terrors. (i) That is, with great fear.

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• Job 18:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 18. Second Speech of Bildad. Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, howev...

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• Job 18:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  king of terrors. Euphemy, for death.

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• Job 18:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. His confidence shall be rooted out - His dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shah now he de...

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• Job 18:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And it shall bring him to the king of terrors— Horrors shall attack him, like a king. Heath.

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• Job 18:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. Confidence - all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness-children, fortune, etc....

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• Job 18:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Bildad's Second Speech Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not so much, however, with covert reference to Job, to...

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• Job 18:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out. — Rather, he shall be rooted out of his tent which he trusted was his own. The king of terrors. — Perhaps the most remarkable personification of unseen forc...

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• Job 18:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1-21 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished mashal , this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less,...

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• Job 18:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2 , r.v....

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• Job 18:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done...

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• Job 18:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...

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• Job 18:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle ,.... That which his confidence was placed in, his wealth and riches, his family, particularly his children, in all which he placed his confidenc...

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• Job 18:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. Ver. 14. And his confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle ] Whatsoever he trusteth in a...

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• Job 18:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  His confidence That is, all the matter of his confidence, his riches, children, &c.; shall be rooted out of his tabernacle That is, out of his habitation. And it Namely, the loss of his con...

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• Job 18:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered J...

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• Job 18:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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 th...

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• Job 18:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His confidence, i.e. all the matter of his confidence, his riches, children, &c. Out of his tabernacle, i.e. out of his habitation. It shall bring him, to wit, the loss of his confidence....

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• Job 18:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, o...

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• Job 18:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 18:6 . The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Is...

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• Job 18:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite. The danger of denouncing wickedness How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of...

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• Job 18:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 18:1-18 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-18 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comfort...

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• Job 18:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:55 ; 1 Corinthians 15:56 ; Hebrews 2:15 ; Job 11:20 ; Job 24:17 ; Job 41:34 ; Job 8:14 ; Matthew 7:26 ; Matthew 7:27 ; Proverbs 10:28 ; Proverbs 14:32 ; Psalms 112:10 ;...

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• Job 18:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Confidence — All the matter of his confidence, his riches, and children. Terrors — To death, which even Aristotle called, The most terrible of all terribles. And this it will do, either because it...

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