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Job 18:20

NETBible	People of the west¹ are appalled at his fate;² people of the east are seized with horror,³ saying,⁴
NIV © biblegateway Job 18:20	Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
NASB © biblegateway Job 18:20	"Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.
NLT © biblegateway Job 18:20	People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.
MSG © biblegateway Job 18:20	Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified:
BBE © SABDAweb Job 18:20	At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 18:20	They of the west are appalled at their fate, and horror seizes those of the east.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 18:20	Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened.
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KJV	They that come after <0314> [him] shall be astonied <08074> (8738) at his day <03117>_, as they that went before <06931> were affrighted <0270> (8804) <08178>_. {went...: or, lived with him} {were...: Heb. laid hold on horror}
NASB © biblegateway Job 18:20	"Those in the west <0314> are appalled <08074> at his fate <03117> , And those in the east <06931> are seized <0270> with horror <08178> .
LXXM	ep <1909> PREP autw <846> D-DSM estenaxan <4727> V-AAI-3P escatoi <2078> A-NPM prwtouv <4413> A-APMS de <1161> PRT escen <2192> V-AAI-3S yauma <2295> N-NSN
NET [draft] ITL	People of the west <0314> are appalled <08074> at his fate <03117> ; people of the east <06931> are seized <0270> with horror <08178> , saying,
HEBREW	rev <08178> wzxa <0270> Mynmdqw <06931> Mynrxa <0314> wmsn <08074> wmwy <03117> le (18:20) <05921>

NETBible

People of the west¹ are appalled at his fate;² people of the east are seized with horror,³ saying,⁴

NET Notes

¹tn The word אַחֲרֹנִים (’akharonim) means “those [men] coming after.” And the next word, קַדְמֹנִים (qadmonim), means “those [men] coming before.” Some commentators have tried to see here references to people who lived before and people who lived after, but that does not explain their being appalled at the fate of the wicked. So the normal way this is taken is in connection to the geography, notably the seas – “the hinder sea” refers to the Mediterranean, the West, and “the front sea” refers to the Dead Sea (Zech 14:8), namely, the East. The versions understood this as temporal: “the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first” (LXX).

²tn Heb “his day.”

³tn The expression has “they seize horror.” The RSV renders this “horror seizes them.” The same idiom is found in Job 21:6: “laid hold on shuddering.” The idiom would solve the grammatical problem, and not change the meaning greatly; but it would change the parallelism.

⁴tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation to mark and introduce the following as a quotation of these people who are seized with horror. The alternative is to take v. 21 as Bildad’s own summary statement (cf. G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray, Job [ICC], 2:162; J. E. Hartley, Job [NICOT], 280).