Job 18:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. ”

• Job 18:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They that come after him - Future ages; they who may hear of his history and of the manner in which he was cut off from life. So the passage has been generally rendered; so, substantially, it is...

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• Job 18:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his (n) day, as they that went before were affrighted. (n) When they will see what came to him.

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• Job 18:20 - 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 18:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  day. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the thing done in the day: i.e. his fall.

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• Job 18:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. They that come after him - The young shall be struck with astonishment when they hear the relation o...

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• Job 18:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As they that went before were affrighted— As his elders were seized with horror. The plain meaning of the verse seems to be, "His elders, who saw so signal an instance of divine vengeance, were s...

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• Job 18:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. After... before - rather, 'those in the West-those in the East' - i:e., all people; literally,...

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• Job 18:20 - 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 18:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall be astonied at his day. — That is, his doom, or destiny. He shall stand forth as a warning and monument to all.

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• Job 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day ,.... At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see Psalms 37:13 ; it would be extremely amazing to them how it shoul...

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• Job 18:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. Ver. 20. They that come after him shall be astonied at his day ] Future ages, hearing the relatio...

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• Job 18:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They that come after him And hear the report of it, shall be astonied at his day The day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness and dreadfulness of it. As they that went befo...

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• Job 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  At his day, i.e. at the day of his destruction, as the word day is used, Psalms 37:13 , Psalms 137:7 Ezekiel 21:25 Obadiah 1:12 . They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness, a...

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• Job 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - 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 18:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 9:8 ; Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Deuteronomy 29:24 ; Ezekiel 21:25 ; Jeremiah 18:16 ; Job 19:13-19 ; Job 2:12 ; Job 2:13 ; Luke 19:42 ; Luke 19:44 ; Obadiah 1:11-15 ; Psalms 137:7 ; Psa...

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• Job 18:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Astonied — At the day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness of it. Before — Before the persons last mentioned. Those who lived in the time and place where thi...

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