Job 18:18

Daniel 4:33; Daniel 5:21; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 8:22; Job 10:22; Job 11:14; Job 20:8; Job 3:20; Jude 1:13; Proverbs 14:32

Related Commentaries of Job 18:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness - Margin, “They shall drive him.” The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

He shall be driven from (m) light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.
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 o...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He shall be driven from light - He shall be taken off by a violent death....
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Light ... darkness - existence-nonexistence.
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 s...
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 sta...
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....
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 sens...
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 o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness ,.... Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Ver. 18. He shall be driven out of light into darkness ] Heb. They shall...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

His roots shall be dried up , &c. That is, he shall be destroyed, both root and branch; both himself and his posterity. His remembrance shall p...
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 o...
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 sh...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He shall be driven, Heb. they shall drive him , i.e. his enemies, or those whom he hath oppressed; or they whom God shall appoint to do it, whethe...
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 sca...
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, “t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite. The danger of denouncing wickedness How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedn...
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 b...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He shall be driven from light into darkness, out of the happiness of life into the misery of death, and chased out of the world, excluded forever f...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Darkness — From a prosperous life to disgrace and misery, and to the grave, the land of darkness.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Related Commentaries of Job 18:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 18:18