The Meaning of Job 18:18 Explained

Job 18:18

KJV: He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

YLT: They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Darby: He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

ASV: He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:18?

MEANING: What does Job 18:18 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:18 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:18?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He shall be driven  from light  into darkness,  and chased  out of the world. 

What does Job 18:18 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 18:1-21 - "cast Into A Net"
Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls.
His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11; their destruction, Job 18:12-17; the horror with which men shall regard their fate, Job 18:18-21. All this was, of course, intended for Job. It was very severe. Even if the worst had been true, his extreme sufferings should have elicited more tenderness from his friends. Only the strong, wise hand of love can assuage the wounds that sin has made. We are indebted to Bildad for the phrase, king of terrors, as applied to death, Job 18:14. Apart from Christ, it is a significant and appropriate term. Sin has made his monarchy terrible. Yet even he has met his conqueror, John 11:25-26; Hebrews 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26.
The ancients had a deep presentiment of the punishments which must overtake sin. Probably we make too little of them. The note of fear has almost died out of modern preaching. In this there is a marked divergence from Baxter's Call to the Unconverted and from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. But the doom of sin can only be terrible, especially for those to whom Calvary has pleaded in vain. A great atonement implies great sin, and this, a great penalty. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 18

1  Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5  The calamities of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 18:18 mean?

He is driven from light into darkness and out of the world chased
יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ מֵא֣וֹר אֶל־ חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל יְנִדֻּֽהוּ

יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ  He  is  driven 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural, third person masculine singular
Root: הָדַף  
Sense: to thrust, push, drive, cast away, cast out, expel, thrust away.
מֵא֣וֹר  from  light 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, common singular
Root: אֹור  
Sense: light.
אֶל־  into 
Parse: Preposition
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
חֹ֑שֶׁךְ  darkness 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹשֶׁךְ  
Sense: darkness, obscurity.
וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל  and  out  of  the  world 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Noun, feminine singular
Root: תֵּבֵל  
Sense: world.
יְנִדֻּֽהוּ  chased 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person masculine plural, third person masculine singular
Root: נָדַד  
Sense: to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter.

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