18:2 How long [will it be ere] {a} ye make an end of words? {b} mark, and afterwards we will speak. (a) Who count yourselves just as Job 12:4. (b) Whom you take to be only beasts, as in Job 12:7. 18:4 {c} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the {d} earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? (c) That is, like a madman. (d) Shall God change the order of nature for your sake, by dealing with you otherwise than he does with all man? 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be {e} put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. (e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes his state: and this is his ordinary working for their sins. 18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he {f} walketh upon a snare. (f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger. 18:12 His strength shall be {g} hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. (g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine. 18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the {h} firstborn of death shall devour his strength. (h) That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts. 18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the {i} king of terrors. (i) That is, with great fear. 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: {l} brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. (l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would destroy him and his. 18:18 He shall be driven from {m} light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity. 18:20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his {n} day, as they that went before were affrighted. (n) When they will see what came to him. | |