14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: …
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? …
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God’s wrath ( Job 18:11 , 12 ): Terro…
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