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Text -- Job 18:3-21 (NET)
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18:3 Why should we be regarded as beasts , and considered stupid in your sight ?
18:4 You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger , will the earth be abandoned for your sake ? Or will a rock be moved from its place ?
18:5 “Yes , the lamp of the wicked is extinguished ; his flame of fire does not shine .
18:6 The light in his tent grows dark ; his lamp above him is extinguished .
18:7 His vigorous steps are restricted , and his own counsel throws him down .
18:8 For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh .
18:9 A trap seizes him by the heel ; a snare grips him.
18:10 A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path .
18:11 Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step .
18:12 Calamity is hungry for him , and misfortune is ready at his side .
18:13 It eats away parts of his skin ; the most terrible death devours his limbs .
18:14 He is dragged from the security of his tent , and marched off to the king of terrors .
18:15 Fire resides in his tent ; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered .
18:16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above .
18:17 His memory perishes from the earth , he has no name in the land .
18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world .
18:19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people , no survivor in those places he once stayed .
18:20 People of the west are appalled at his fate ; people of the east are seized with horror , saying,
18:21 ‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man ; and this is the place of one who has not known God .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Wicked |
HUNTING |
Net |
Snare |
Death |
BRIMSTONE |
Self-righteousness |
Pride |
GIN |
Cowardice |
Trap |
WORLD, COSMOLOGICAL |
STONES, PRECIOUS |
Fear of God |
Lamp |
Sin |
Sulphur |
SKIN |
POETRY, HEBREW |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Job 18:3; Job 18:4; Job 18:4; Job 18:4; Job 18:5; Job 18:5; Job 18:5; Job 18:6; Job 18:6; Job 18:7; Job 18:7; Job 18:7; Job 18:8; Job 18:8; Job 18:9; Job 18:9; Job 18:10; Job 18:10; Job 18:11; Job 18:11; Job 18:12; Job 18:12; Job 18:12; Job 18:13; Job 18:13; Job 18:14; Job 18:14; Job 18:14; Job 18:15; Job 18:17; Job 18:18; Job 18:19; Job 18:19; Job 18:20; Job 18:20; Job 18:20; Job 18:20; Job 18:21; Job 18:21
NET Notes: Job 18:3 The verb נִטְמִינוּ (nitminu) has been explained from different roots. Some take it from &...
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NET Notes: Job 18:4 Bildad is asking if Job thinks the whole moral order of the world should be interrupted for his sake, that he may escape the punishment for wickedness...
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NET Notes: Job 18:5 The expression is literally “the flame of his fire,” but the pronominal suffix qualifies the entire bound construction. The two words toge...
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NET Notes: Job 18:6 This thesis of Bildad will be questioned by Job in 21:17 – how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?
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NET Notes: Job 18:7 The LXX has “causes him to stumble,” which many commentators accept; but this involves the transposition of the three letters. The verb is...
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NET Notes: Job 18:8 The word שְׂבָכָה (sÿvakhah) is used in scripture for the lattice window (2 Kgs 1:2). The Arabic ...
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NET Notes: Job 18:9 This word does not occur elsewhere. But another word from the same root means “plait of hair,” and so this term has something to do with a...
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NET Notes: Job 18:11 The verb פּוּץ (puts) in the Hiphil has the meaning “to pursue” and “to scatter.” It is followed...
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NET Notes: Job 18:12 The expression means that misfortune is right there to destroy him whenever there is the opportunity.
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NET Notes: Job 18:13 The “firstborn of death” is the strongest child of death (Gen 49:3), or the deadliest death (like the “firstborn of the poor, the po...
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NET Notes: Job 18:14 This is a reference to death, the king of all terrors. Other identifications are made in the commentaries: Mot, the Ugaritic god of death; Nergal of t...
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NET Notes: Job 18:15 This line is difficult as well. The verb, again a third feminine form, says “it dwells in his tent.” But the next part (מִ...
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NET Notes: Job 18:17 Heb “outside.” Cf. ESV, “in the street,” referring to absence from his community’s memory.
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NET Notes: Job 18:18 The verbs in this verse are plural; without the expressed subject they should be taken in the passive sense.
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NET Notes: Job 18:19 Heb “in his sojournings.” The verb גּוּר (gur) means “to reside; to sojourn” temporarily, withou...
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NET Notes: Job 18:20 The word “saying” is supplied in the translation to mark and introduce the following as a quotation of these people who are seized with ho...
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