Job 8:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Job 8:18 —

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Cross-References

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Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Psalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Job 7:8
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Psalms 73:18-19
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …
Psalms 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Commentary

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

(vv. 8-19)

Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…

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

(vv. 18)

18. If He (God) tear him away (properly, “to tear away rapidly and violently”) from his place, “then it [the place personified] shall deny him” (Psa 103:16). The very soil is ashamed of the weeds lying withered on its surface, as though it never had been connected with them. So, when the godless falls from prosperity, his nearest friends disown him.