His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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Gill's Exposition
It shall dwell in his tabernacle,.... What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are made; the Targum is,
"his wife shall dwell in a…
Barnes' Notes
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle - Security shall forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms. There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and all…
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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