The Meaning of Job 18:21 Explained

Job 18:21

KJV: Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

YLT: Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

Darby: Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.

ASV: Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Discover Job 18:21

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:21?

MEANING: What does Job 18:21 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:21 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:21?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Surely such [are] the dwellings  of the wicked,  and this [is] the place  [of him that] knoweth  not God. 

What does Job 18:21 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 18:21 mean?

Surely these [are] the dwellings of the wicked and this [is] the place [of] not [him] who does know God -
אַךְ־ אֵ֭לֶּה מִשְׁכְּנ֣וֹת עַוָּ֑ל וְ֝זֶ֗ה מְק֣וֹם לֹא־ יָדַֽע־ אֵֽל ס

אַךְ־  Surely 
Parse: Adverb
Root: אַךְ  
Sense: indeed, surely (emphatic).
אֵ֭לֶּה  these  [are] 
Parse: Pronoun, common plural
Root: אֵהֶל 
Sense: these.
מִשְׁכְּנ֣וֹת  the  dwellings 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: מִשְׁכָּן  
Sense: dwelling place, tabernacle.
עַוָּ֑ל  of  the  wicked 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַוָּל  
Sense: unjust one, perverse one, unrighteous one.
וְ֝זֶ֗ה  and  this  [is] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Pronoun, masculine singular
Root: זֶה  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, another, such.
מְק֣וֹם  the  place  [of] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מָקֹום  
Sense: standing place, place.
יָדַֽע־  [him]  who  does  know 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
אֵֽל  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֵל 
Sense: god, god-like one, mighty one.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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