Job 18:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Job 18:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job 16:9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

Topics

Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was serving Satan’s design in adding to Job’s affliction. I. He charges him with idle endless talk, as Eliphaz had done (Job 15:2, 3): How long will it be ere you make an end of words? Job 18:2. Here he reflects, not only upon Job himself, but either upon…

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

(vv. 4)

4. Rather, turning to Job, “thou that tearest thyself in anger” (Job 5:2). be forsaken?--become desolate. He alludes here to Job’s words as to the “rock,” crumbling away (Job 14:18, 19); but in a different application. He says bitterly “for thee.” Wert thou not punished as thou art, and as thou art unwilling to bear, the eternal order of the universe would be disturbed and the earth become desolat…