Job 18 · Verse 14

Job 18:14

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Job 18:14, King James Version

Job 18:14 in other translations

BSBHe is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
WEBHe will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
ASVHe shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
YLTDrawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
DARBYHis confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
BBEHe is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
WebsterHis confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

What does Job 18:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. confidence--all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness, children, fortune, &c., referring to Job's losses. rooted out--suddenly torn away, it shall bring--that is, he shall be brought; or, as Umbreit better has, "Thou (God) shalt bring him slowly." The Hebrew expresses, "to stride slowly and solemnly." The godless has a fearful death for long before his eyes, and is at last taken by it. Alluding to Job's case. The King of terrors, not like the heathen Pluto, the tabled ruler of the dead, but Death, with all its terrors to the ungodly, personified.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 His confidence shall be rooted out - His dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shah now he deemed utterly insecure. And it shall bring him to the king of terrors - Or, as Mr. Good translates, "And dissolution shall invade him as a monarch." He shall be completely and finally overpowered. The phrase king of terrors has been generally thought to mean death; but it is not used in any such way in the text. For למלך בלהות lemelech ballahoth, to the king of destructions, one of De Rossi's MSS. has כמלך kemelech, "as a king;" and one, instead of בלהות ballahoth, with ו vau holem, to indicate the plural, terrors or destructions, has בלהות ballahuth, with ו vau shurek, which is singular, and signifies terror, destruction. So the Vulgate seems to have read, as it translates, Et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitis; "And shall tread upon him as a king or destroyer. Or as a king who is determined utterly to destroy him." On this verse the bishop of Killala, Dr. Stock, says, "I am sorry to part with a beautiful phrase in our common version, the king of terrors, as descriptive of death; but there is no authority for it in the Hebrew text." It may however be stated that death has been denominated by similar epithets both among the Greeks and Romans. So Virgil, Aen. vi., ver. 100. - Quando hic inferni janua regi Dicitur. "The gates of the king of hell are reported to be here." And Ovid, Metam. lib. v., ver. 356, 359. Inde tremit tellus: et rex pavit ipse silentum. Hanc metuens cladem, tenebrosa sede tyrannus Exierat. "Earth's inmost bowels quake, and nature groans; His terrors reach the direful King of Hell. Fearing this destruction, the tyrant left hisgloomy court." And in Sophocles, (Oedip. Colon., ver. 1628, edit. Johnson). Εννυχιων αναξ, Αιδωνευ. "O Pluto, king of shades." That is, the invisible demon, who dwells in darkness impenetrable. Old Coverdale translates: Very fearfulnesse shall bringe him to the kynge.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 18:11-21

Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his…

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Job 18:14 in the original Hebrew

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יִנָּתֵ֣קyi.na.Tekhe is torn awayH5423
מֵ֭אָהֳלוֹme.'o.ho.lofrom tent hisH168
מִבְטַח֑וֹmiv.ta.Chotrust hisH4009
וְ֝תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּve.tatz.'i.De.huand it makes march himH6805
לְמֶ֣לֶךְle.Me.lekhto [the] king ofH4428
בַּלָּהֽוֹת\׃ba.la.Hotsudden terror<s>H1091

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Cross references for Job 18:14

  • Proverbs 10:28

    The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

  • Psalms 55:4

    My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • Job 8:22

    They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  • Job 8:14

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

  • Job 24:17

    For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Matthew 7:26-27

    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: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:55-56

    O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

  • Psalms 112:10

    The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • Hebrews 2:15

    And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

  • Proverbs 14:32

    The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

  • Job 11:20

    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.

  • Job 41:34

    He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
confidence.
8:14; 11:20; Ps 112:10; Pr 10:28; Mt 7:26,27
the king.
24:17; 41:34; Ps 55:4; Pr 14:32; 1Co 15:55,56; Heb 2:15

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Context

  • Job 18:13

    It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

  • Job 18:14

    His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

  • Job 18:15

    It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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Job 18:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Su confianza será arrancada de su tienda, y harále esto llevar al rey de los espantos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ce qui faisait sa confiance est arraché de sa tente, et il est forcé de marcher vers le roi des terreurs.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Seine Zuversicht wird hinweggerissen werden aus seinem Zelte, und es wird ihn forttreiben zu dem König der Schrecken.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Avellatur de tabernaculo suo fiducia ejus, et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitus.