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18:6 The light <0216> in his tent <0168> grows dark <02821>; his lamp <05216> above <05921> him is extinguished <01846>. 18:7 His vigorous <0202> steps <06806> are restricted <03334>, and his own counsel <06098> throws <07993> him down <07993>. 18:8 For <03588> he has been thrown <07971> into a net <07568> by his feet <07272> and he wanders <01980> into <05921> a mesh <07639>. 18:9 A trap <06341> seizes <0270> him by the heel <06119>; a snare <06782> grips <02388> him. 18:10 A rope <02256> is hidden <02934> for him on the ground <0776> and a trap <04434> for him lies on <05921> the path <05410>. 18:11 Terrors <01091> frighten <01204> him on all sides <05439> and dog his every step <07272>. 18:12 Calamity is hungry <07457> for him <0202>, and misfortune <0343> is ready <03559> at his side <06763>. 18:13 It eats <0398> away parts <0905> of his skin <05785>; the most terrible <01060> death <04194> devours <0398> his limbs <0905>. 18:14 He is dragged <05423> from the security <04009> of his tent <0168>, and marched off <06805> to the king <04428> of terrors <01091>. 18:15 Fire resides in <07931> his tent <0168>; over <05921> his residence <05116> burning sulfur <01614> is scattered <02219>. 18:16 Below <08478> his roots <08328> dry <03001> up, and his branches <07105> wither <05243> above <04605>. 18:17 His memory <02143> perishes <06> from <04480> the earth <0776>, he has no <03808> name <08034> in <05921> the land <02351> <06440>. 18:18 He is driven from <01920> light <0216> into <0413> darkness <02822> and is banished <05074> from the world <08398>. 18:19 He has neither <03808> children <05209> nor <03808> descendants <05220> among his people <05971>, no <0369> survivor <08300> in those places <04033> he once stayed <04033>. 18:20 People of the west <0314> are appalled <08074> at his fate <03117>; people of the east <06931> are seized <0270> with horror <08178>, saying, 18:21 ‘Surely <0389> such <0428> is the residence <04908> of an evil man <05767>; and this <02088> is the place <04725> of one who has not <03808> known <03045> God <0410>.’”

• Job 18:1-21 -- Bildad's Second Speech

• Wicked

  [nave] WICKED Compared with: Abominable branches, Isa. 14:19; ashes under the feet, Mal. 4:3; bad fishes, Matt. 13:48; beasts, Psa. 49:12; 2 Pet. 2:12; the blind, Zeph. 1:17; Matt. 15:14; bronze and iron, Jer. 6:28; Ezek. 22:18; br...
  

• WORLD, COSMOLOGICAL

  [isbe] WORLD, COSMOLOGICAL - wurld, koz-mo-loj'-i-kal: 1. Terms and General Meaning 2. Hebrew Idea of the World 3. Its Extent 4. Origin of the World--Biblical and Contrasted Views 5. The Cosmogony of Genesis 1--Comparison with Baby...
  

• Tent

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the coveri...
  

• Tabernacle

  [ebd] (1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., "Siccuth"). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1, 4); a tent, as opposed ...
  

• Snare

  [nave] SNARE. Amos 3:5. Figurative Of the evils in life of the wicked, Job 18:8-10. Of the devices of the wicked to deceive the righteous, Psa. 91:3; Jer. 5:26. See: Ambush; Conspiracy; Pit; Trap.
  

• STONES, PRECIOUS

  [isbe] STONES, PRECIOUS - || 1. Ancient and Modern Names 2. Change of Signification of Names 3. Three Important Lists of Stones 4. Interpretation of Greek Names Used by John 5. Interpretation of Hebrew Names 6. Greek and Latin Equi...
  

• SKIN

  [isbe] SKIN - (`or, geledh, "human skin" (Job 16:15), basar, "flesh," in the sense of "nakedness" (Ps 102:5 the King James Version); derma): Literal: The word `or designates the skin of both men and animals, the latter both raw and...
  

• ROBBER; ROBBERY

  [isbe] ROBBER; ROBBERY - rob'-er, rob'-er-i: "Robber" represents no particular Hebrew word in the Old Testament, but in the Apocrypha and the New Testament is always a translation of lestes (see THIEF). In the King James Version Jo...
  

• PLAGUES OF EGYPT

  [isbe] PLAGUES OF EGYPT - plagz (niphle'oth, "wonders "from pala', "to be separate," i.e. in a class by themselves; also called negheph, "plague," from naghaph, "to smite" (Ex 9:14), and negha`, "a stroke," from nagha`, "to touch" ...
  

• LAMP; LAMPSTAND

  [isbe] LAMP; LAMPSTAND - lamp'-stand (nir, ner, lappidh, Phoenician lampadh, whence lampas; luchnos is also used): Ner or nir is properly "light" or "a light-giving thing," hence, "lamp," and is so rendered in the Revised Version (...
  

• King

  [ebd] is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan (Josh. 12:9, 24), whom Joshua subdued. Adonibezek subdued seventy kings (Judg. 1:...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• HUNTING

  [isbe] HUNTING - hunt'-ing (tsayidh): The hunting of wild animals for sport, or for the defense of men and flocks, or for food, was common in Western Asia and Egypt, especially in early times. Some of the Egyptian and Assyrian king...
  [smith] Hunting, as a matter of necessity, whether for the exterminatiOn of dangerous beasts or for procuring sustenance betokens a rude and semi-civilized state; as an amusement, it betokens an advanced state. The Hebrews as a pasto...
  

• GIN

  [ebd] a trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence...
  [isbe] GIN - jin (moqesh, pach): A noose of hair or wire for snaring wild birds alive. There are over half a dozen traps and net devices indicated by different terms in the Bible. The gin was of horse-hair for small birds and wire ...
  

• Darkness

  [ebd] The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23)....
  

• Candle

  [ebd] Heb. ner, Job 18:6; 29:3; Ps. 18:28; Prov. 24:20, in all which places the Revised Version and margin of Authorized Version have "lamp," by which the word is elsewhere frequently rendered. The Hebrew word denotes properly any...
  

• CONFIDENCE

  [isbe] CONFIDENCE - kon'-fi-dens (baTach, and forms, kecel; parrhesia; peitho, pepoithesis, hupostasis): The chief Hebrew word translated "confidence" (baTach, and its forms) means, perhaps, radically, "to be open," showing thus wh...
  

• CANDLE; CANDLESTICK

  [isbe] CANDLE; CANDLESTICK - kan'-d'-l, kan'-d'-l-stik (ner; luchnos; menorah; luchnia): (1) "Candle" is found in the Old Testament, the King James Version, as the rendering of ner, and in the New Testament for luchnos. In all plac...
  

• BRING

  [isbe] BRING - dasha' = "to sprout," "spring" (Gen 1:11 the King James Version); sharats = "to wriggle," "swarm" (Gen 1:20 f; 9:7; Ex 8:3); yaladh = "to bear," "beget" (Gen 3:16; 2 Ki 19:3; Job 15:35; 39:1,2; "what a day may bring ...
  

• BRIMSTONE

  [ebd] an inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. The cities of the plain were destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24, 25). In Isa. 34:9 allusion is made to the destruction of...
  [isbe] BRIMSTONE - brim'-ston, brim'-stun (gophrith; to theion): The word translated "brimstone" probably referred originally to the pitch of trees, like the cypress. By analogy it has been rendered "brimstone" because of the infla...
  

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