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Job 18:20

Job 18:20
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted .

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,.... As before described; as that the light should be dark in them; a wicked man's confidence should be rooted out of them; everything shocking and dreadful…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

They that come after him - Future ages; they who may hear of his history and of the manner in which he was cut off from life. So the passage has been generally rendered; so, substantially, it is by…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 18:11-21

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

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…