Job 18:2
18:2 How long [will it be ere] {a} ye make an end of words? {b}
mark, and afterwards we will speak.
(a) Who count yourselves just as @Job 12:4.
(b) Whom you take to be only beasts, as in @Job 12:7.
Job 18:4
18:4 {c} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the {d} earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
place?
(c) That is, like a madman.
(d) Shall God change the order of nature for your sake, by
dealing with you otherwise than he does with all man?
Job 18:5
18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be {e} put out, and the
spark of his fire shall not shine.
(e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes
his state: and this is his ordinary working for their
sins.
Job 18:8
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he {f}
walketh upon a snare.
(f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.
Job 18:12
18:12 His strength shall be {g} hungerbitten, and destruction
[shall be] ready at his side.
(g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by
famine.
Job 18:13
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the {h}
firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
(h) That is, some strong and violent death will consume
his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his
members or parts.
Job 18:14
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and
it shall bring him to the {i} king of terrors.
(i) That is, with great fear.
Job 18:15
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of
his: {l} brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
(l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would
destroy him and his.
Job 18:18
18:18 He shall be driven from {m} light into darkness, and
chased out of the world.
(m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.
Job 18:20
18:20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his {n}
day, as they that went before were affrighted.
(n) When they will see what came to him.
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