Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Job 18:20 in other translations
| BSB | Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror. |
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| WEB | Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. |
| ASV | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. |
| YLT | At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. |
| DARBY | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted. |
| BBE | At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear. |
| Webster | They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. |
What does Job 18:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Job 18:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 18:20
- Psalms 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 21:25
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
- Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- Obadiah 1:11-15
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. …
- Luke 19:42
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
- Deuteronomy 29:23-24
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
- Luke 19:44
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Job 2:12-13
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- 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?
- Job 19:13-19
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. …
- Psalms 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
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- Job 18:19
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
- Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 18:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sobre su día se espantarán los por venir, como ocupó el pavor á los que fueron antes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ceux qui viennent après seront étonnés de son jour, comme l’horreur s’est emparée de ceux qui les ont précédés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Über seinen Tag entsetzen sich die im Westen Wohnenden, und die im Osten erfaßt Schauder. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In die ejus stupebunt novissimi, et primos invadet horror. |