Job 18:18

Amplified Bible

"He is driven and propelled from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He is driven from light to darknessand chased from the inhabited world.

Hebrew Names Version
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

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

English Standard Version
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

New Century Version
They will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

New English Translation
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

New American Standard Bible
"He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

World English Bible
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

Legacy Standard Bible
He is driven from light into darkness,And chased from the inhabited world.

Berean Standard Bible
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Contemporary English Version
thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

Complete Jewish Bible
He will be pushed from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
They will be forced from light into darkness. They will be chased out of this world.

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

Good News Translation
They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.

Lexham English Bible
"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from the world.

Literal Translation
They push him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

American Standard Version
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Bible in Basic English
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

King James Version (1611)
He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let one drive him from light into darkness.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal put hym out fro `liyt in to derknessis; and he schal bere hym ouer fro the world.

Update Bible Version
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

New King James Version
He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

New Living Translation
They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.

New Life Bible
He is sent from light into darkness, and driven away from where people live.

New Revised Standard
They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Revised Standard Version
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Young's Literal Translation
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

Contextual Overview

¹¹"Terrors frighten him on every side And chase at his heels. ¹²"The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened, And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops]. ¹³"His skin is devoured by disease; The firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] consumes his limbs. ¹⁴"He is torn from his tent which he trusted [for safety], And he is marched and brought to the king of terrors (death). ¹⁵"Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it]. ¹⁶"The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below, And above, his branch is cut off and withers. ¹⁷"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name on the street. ¹⁸"He is driven and propelled from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.¹⁹"He has no offspring or prosperity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned. ²⁰"Those in the west are astonished and appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He shall be driven: Heb. They shall drive him, Job 3:20, Job 10:22, Job 11:14, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22, Jude 1:13

chased: Job 20:8, Proverbs 14:32, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 17:14, Daniel 4:33, Daniel 5:21

Reciprocal: Esther 9:10 - ten sons Job 15:23 - the day Job 15:30 - depart Job 20:27 - earth Job 21:17 - oft Job 22:11 - darkness Job 23:17 - the darkness from Job 30:26 - light Job 38:15 - from Psalms 58:9 - as Proverbs 4:19 - General Proverbs 20:20 - his Ecclesiastes 11:8 - yet Jeremiah 23:12 - in the Lamentations 3:2 - brought Hosea 9:11 - their

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
When he raised his eyes and looked up, behold, three men were standing [a little distance] from him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down [with his face] to the ground,

Genesis 18:3
and Abraham said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass by your servant [without stopping to visit].

Genesis 18:17
The LORD said, "Shall I keep secret from Abraham [My friend and servant] what I am going to do,

Genesis 18:18
since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?

Genesis 18:25
"Far be it from You to do such a thing—to strike the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right [by executing just and righteous judgment]?"

Genesis 18:26
So the LORD said, "If I find within the city of Sodom fifty righteous [people], then I will spare the entire place for their sake."

Genesis 26:4
"I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Psalms 72:17
May his name endure forever; May his name continue as long as the sun; And let men bless themselves by him; Let all nations call him blessed.

Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news [of the Savior] to Abraham in advance [with this promise], saying, "IN YOU SHALL ALL THE NATIONS BE BLESSED."

Galatians 3:14
in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might also come to the Gentiles, so that we would all receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit through faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness,.... Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversity; or rather from the light of the living, the light of the present life, to the darkness of death, and the grave, the land of darkness, and of the shadow of death, Job 10:21; and even into utter darkness, blackness of darkness, the darkness of hell, eternal darkness; opposed to the light of the divine Presence, and the inheritance of the saints in light, possessed by them to all eternity; which the wicked man is deprived of, and will have no share in, but shall be driven from the presence of God, and by him; for so the words may be rendered, "they shall drive him" n, God, Father, Son, and Spirit; God by the east wind and storm of his wrath shall carry him away, and hurl him out of his place, and shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and not spare, nor shall he flee out of his hands, though he fain would, Job 27:21; or the angels, good or bad, shall drive him into endless torments, or shall, by the divine order, take him and cast him into outward darkness, where are weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; thus are the wicked driven against their will, and must go whether they will or not, and, like beasts to the slaughter, are driven in their wickedness, in order to suffer the punishment due unto it, when the righteous hath hope in his death, Proverbs 14:32;

and chased out of the world; or cast out of it, as an unclean or excommunicated person, of which the word here is sometimes used o; and not only chased out of his own place, out of his own house, and out of his own country, but even out of the world, so as to have no place any more in it, see Job 20:8.

n יהדפוה "expellent eum", Pagninus, Montanus; so Tigurine version, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Schultens, Cocceius, Schmidt. o ינדהו "excommunicabunt cum", Schmidt, Michaelis; so Codurcus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness - Margin, “They shall drive him.” The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity to one of calamity.

And chased out of the world - Perhaps meaning that he should not be conducted to the grave with the slow and solemn pomp of a respectful funeral, but in a hurry - as a malefactor is driven from human life, and hastily commited to the earth. The living would be glad to be rid of him, and would “chase” him out of life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 18:18. He shall be driven from light — He shall be taken off by a violent death.

And chased out of the world. — The wicked is DRIVEN AWAY in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life.