Job 18:14

Job 18:14

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12 His strength is starved,
And ^adestruction is ready at his side.

13 It devours patches of his skin;
The firstborn of death devours his¹ limbs.

14 He is uprooted from ^athe shelter of his tent,
And they parade him before the king of terrors.

15 They dwell in his tent who are none of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.

16 ^aHis roots are dried out below,
And his branch withers above.

17 ^aThe memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name¹ among the renowned.

18 ¹He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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confidence—all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness, children, fortune, etc., referring to Job's losses.

rooted out—suddenly torn away, it shall bring—that is, he shall be brought; or, as UMBREIT better has, "Thou (God) shalt bring him slowly." The Hebrew expresses, "to stride slowly and solemnly." The godless has a fearful death for long before his eyes, and is at last taken by it. Alluding to Job's case. The King of terrors, not like the heathen Pluto, the tabled ruler of the dead, but Death, with all its terrors to the ungodly, personified.

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