Job 8:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If he, &c. Namely, God, who is the saviour of good men and the destroyer of the wicked; destroy him from his place When God blasts him and plucks him up; then it shall deny him That is, the place shall deny him; saying, I have not seen thee The reader will easily observe, that denying him and seeing him are here ascribed to the place figuratively, and the meaning is, that he shall be so utterly extirpated and destroyed, that there shall be no memorial of him left, nor any remembrance that such a man ever lived in that place. He shall no more recover himself than a tree which is plucked out of the ground, and left to wither.