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Job 18:14

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

Confidence - all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness-children, fortune, etc.; referring to Job's losses. He and his hopes together are cast out from his home (Job 8:14. "Whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spider's web; be shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand").

Rooted out - suddenly torn away.

It shall bring - i:e., he shall be brought: or, as Umbreit, better, has, 'Thou (God) shall bring him slowly.' The Hebrew expresses, 'to stride slowly and solemnly.' The godless has a fearful death long before his eyes, and is gradually at last taken away by it: alluding to Job's case, The King of Terrors, not like the pagan Pluto, the fabled ruler of the dead, but Death, with all its terrors to the ungodly, personified. In the English version "it" means his doom shall bring him with slow and lingering pace' х tsaa`ad (H6805)]. I prefer, with Maurer, to translate, 'He shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, out of his confidence' - i:e., from his tabernacle, in which he always placed his confidence х mibTachow (H4009)].

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See also Job 18:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 18:14. _HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT_] His dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shall now he deemed utterly insecure. _AND IT SHALL BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS._] Or, as Mr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HIS CONFIDENCE SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE - Security shall forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms. There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and all th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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

    KING OF TERRORS. Euphemy, for death....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The closing scenes in three steps: his strength is weakened; his body consumed by a terrible disease; he is led away to the dark king....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND IT SHALL BRING HIM TO THE KING OF TERRORS— _Horrors shall attack him, like a king._ Heath....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִנָּתֵ֣ק מֵ֭ אָהֳלֹו מִבְטַחֹ֑ו וְ֝ תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Confidence. Septuagint, "health." --- Let. Protestants, "and it shall bring him to the king of terrors;" (Haydock) or, "thou (O God) shalt," &c. Septuagint, "let him be in the greatest (Calmet) want,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HIS CONFIDENCE, i.e. all the matter of his confidence, his riches, children, &c. OUT OF HIS TABERNACLE, i.e. out of his habitation. IT SHALL BRING HIM, to wit, the loss of his confidence. TO THE KING...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 18:14 uprooted H5423 (H8735) shelter H4009 tent H168 parade H6805 (H8686) king H4428 terrors H1091 conf

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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