The meaning is,

He shall be plucked out of his tent wherein he trusted,

And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

In the phrase "his tent wherein he trusted" Bildad goes back to his former figure of the sinner's house which he grasps to maintain himself, ch. Job 8:15. The "king of terrors" is death. In Psalms 49:14 a somewhat different figure is employed, that of a shepherd: The wicked "like sheep are put in Sheol, Death herds them," cf. Isaiah 28:15. Death is personified as rex tremendus, Virg. Geo. 4:469 (Hitzig); there is no reference to Satan, who has rule in the realm of death, Hebrews 2:14, nor to any mythical personage like the Pluto of classical antiquity. The last scenes of the sinner's fate have been described: he sought to flee from terrors, he is brought at last to the king of them. Then the fate of those belonging to him is stated.

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