Job 8 · Verse 18

Job 8:18

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job 8:18, King James Version

Job 8:18 in other translations

BSBIf he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
WEBIf he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
ASVIf he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
YLTIf one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
DARBYIf he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
BBEIf he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.
WebsterIf he shall destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

What does Job 8:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 If he destroy him from his place - Is not this a plain reference to the alienation of his inheritance? God destroys him from it; it becomes the property of another; and on his revisiting it, the place, by a striking prosopopoeia, says, "I know thee not; I have never seen thee." This also have I witnessed; I looked on it, felt regret, received instruction, and hasted away.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 8:8-19

Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very…

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Job 8:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּye.val.le.'E.nusomeone will swallow itH1104
מִמְּקוֹמ֑וֹmi.me.ko.Mofrom place itsH4725
וְכִ֥חֶשׁve.Khi.cheshand it will denyH3584
בּ֝֗וֹbo<in> it
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
רְאִיתִֽיךָ\׃re.'i.Ti.khaI have seen youH7200

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 8:18

  • Job 7:10

    He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • 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 37:36

    Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Psalms 92:7

    When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • Job 20:9

    The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Psalms 73:18-19

    Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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7:10; 20:9; Ps 37:10,36; 73:18,19; 92:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 8:17

    His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

  • Job 8:18

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

  • Job 8:19

    Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

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Job 8:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Si le arrancaren de su lugar, éste negarále entonces, diciendo: Nunca te vi.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		S’Il l’ôte de sa place, celle-ci le désavouera: Je ne t’ai pas vu!
German
Elberfelder 1871		wenn er ihn wegreißt von seiner Stätte, so verleugnet sie ihn: "Ich habe dich nie gesehen!"
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Si absorbuerit eum de loco suo, negabit eum, et dicet: Non novi te.