Job 18:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Job 18:20 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Ezekiel 21:25
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
1 Kings 9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Topics

Wicked (people)

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): Terror s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. after ... before--rather, “those in the West--those in the East”; that is, all people; literally, “those behind--those before”; for Orientals in geography turn with their faces to the east (not to the north as we), and back to the west; so that before--east; behind--north (so Zec 14:8). day--of ruin (Ob 12). affrighted--seized with terror (Job 21:6; Is 13:8).