Job 18:20

They that come after him The word "him" must be omitted; the expression refers to the later generations of men, as they that went beforedoes to the earlier, those nearer the sinner's day, but, of course, both expressions describe generations living after the wicked man. Others take the two phrases to mean, they of the West, and they of the East. In the one case the idea is that men's horror of his memory and fate is eternal, lasting through all generations; in the other that it is universal, both in the West and in the East. His dayis the day of his downfall, Psalms 37:13; Jeremiah 50:27. Job had complained that he was made a "byword of the peoples" ch. Job 17:6; Bildad, with a singular hardness, rejoins, It is true, the deep moral instinct of mankind rises up against such a man.