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Job 18:5

Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The light shall the dark in his tabernacle,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light that is in a man becomes…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Yea - Truly; or, behold. Bildad here commences his remarks on the certain destiny of the wicked, and strings together a number of apparently proverbial sayings, showing that calamity in various forms…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 18:5-10

The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 18:5-21

The disastrous end of the wicked, in the moral order of the world, is certain

The last verse naturally led over to this idea, which is the theme of the speech. The idea is set out in a great variety…