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Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Terrors - often mentioned in this book (Job 18:14; Job 24:17, etc.) The terrors excited through an evil conscience are here personified. 'Magor-missabib,' fear round about (Jeremiah 20:3).

Drive ... to his feet - rather, shall pursue (literally, scatter, Habakkuk 3:14) him close at his heels (literally, immediately after his feet; Habakkuk 3:5, "Burning coals went forth at his feet;" Isaiah 41:2; Genesis 30:30, margin; 1 Samuel 25:42 Hebrew: or wherever he sets his feet, wheresoever he turns). The image is that of a pursing conqueror who scatters the enemy (Umbreit).

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See also Job 18:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID - He shall be constantly subject to alarms, and shall never feel secure. “Terrors here are represented as allegorical persons, like the Furies in the Greek poets.” Noyes....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 18 BILDAD'S SECOND ADDRESS _ 1. New reproaches (Job 18:1)_ 2. Once again, the wicked and what they deserve (Job 18:5) Job 18:1. Bildad has the good sense in this second oration to be very br...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 18. SECOND SPEECH OF BILDAD.Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, however,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET. follow at his feet. Compare 1 Samuel 25:42....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse does not seem to give a picture of the sinner's conscience, but rather of his consciousness at last. The preceding verses described how he walked on snares unwitting that they were there; n...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    All things hasten on his ruin; the moral order of the world is such that wherever he moves or touches upon it it becomes a snare to seize him. "Snares" do not mean temptations, they are hidden instrum...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The disastrous end of the wicked, in the moral order of the world, is certain The last verse naturally led over to this idea, which is the theme of the speech. The idea is set out in a great variety...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET— _And shall be spread around at his feet_] Houbigant. The same metaphor seems to be continued....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 18:5-21 5 YEA, THE LIGHT OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT, And the spark of the fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. 7 The step...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BILDAD'S SECOND SPEECH Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not so much, however, with covert reference to Job, to who...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET] RV 'chase him at his heels.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Bildad’s only idea in this chapter was that a wicked man is never successful. Bildad did not actually say that Job was wicked. But Bildad clearly had this opinion....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 18 BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Bildad described something terrible that chases the wicked man. Bildad did not actually say that he was thinking about a wild animal. So the wild animal is just a description of the wicked man’s trou...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET. — Comp. Job 15:21. One feels very much tempted to understand this, as the English undoubtedly suggests, _shall startle him to his feet,_ but the true meaning is, more prob...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    סָ֭בִיב בִּֽעֲתֻ֣הוּ בַלָּהֹ֑ות וֶ הֱפִיצֻ֥הוּ לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished _ mashal_, this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less, in its c...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “CAST INTO A NET” Job 18:1 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were _snares_ to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fears. Hunters used to place loose feathers round the wood, except where the gin was laid, in order to frighten the prey into it. Puniceæque agitant formidine pennæ. (Georg. iii.)_ (Jeremias xlviii....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TERRORS SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID ON EVERY SIDE,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jeremiah 20:3, and all his friends about him; these terrors m...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet._ Ver. 11. _Terrors shall make him afraid on every side_] These terrors are, as it were, the cruel sergeants and merciles...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Terrors shall make him afraid_ Both from men and from God, and also from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. _And drive him to his feet_ Shall force him to flee different ways, being safe now...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, fearful thoughts, as sent upon the wicked by God, to disturb him, AND SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET, pursuing and searing him with every step that he takes,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BILDAD RECKONS JOB WITH THE HARDENED SINNERS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered Job's...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DRIVE HIM: _ Heb._ scatter him...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    As. result of all these imminent dangers facing the wicked such. person is continually frightened and fearful (Proverbs 28:1)....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 everl...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TERRORS; both from men, and from God, and from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. SHALL DRIVE HIM TO HIS FEET; shall force him to flee hither and thither, and he knows not whither, being secu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 18:11 Terrors H1091 frighten H1204 (H8765) side H5439 drive H6327 (H8689) feet H7272 Terrors -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Bildad's second discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: The way of sin is a way of fear and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of consc...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 18:6. _The light shall be dark in his tabernacle._ Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Isaiah...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ THE DANGER OF DENOUNCING WICKEDNESS How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of sin....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:1 Like Eliphaz, Bildad expressed his frustration (vv. Job 18:2): Who is Job to maintain his position and criticize the words of his friends? The remainder of Bildad’s response is a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 18:11 FIRSTBORN OF DEATH and KING OF TERRORS personifies the process and finality of death. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH_ Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, of c...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 18:1 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first (Job 8:1.). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comforters" (Job 16:2,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then answered Bildad (Job 18:1), So this is Bildad's second discourse with him. How long will it be before you make an end of words? just make the mark, and afterwards we will speak. Why do you count...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:11; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Jeremiah 20:3; Jerem

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