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Job 18:21 KJV
Job · chapter 18 · verse 21
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.Job 18:21 · King James Version
Job 18:21 in context
19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- dwellingsmishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- knowethyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- wickedʻavvâlevilH5767 →
- placemâqôwmproperly, a standingH4725 →
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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 condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21