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Job 18:21

For sure, these are the houses of the sinful. This is the place of him who does not know God."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tent;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man,and this is the place of the one who does not know God.
Hebrew Names Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
King James Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
English Standard Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God."
New Century Version
Surely this is what will happen to the wicked; such is the place of one who does not know God."
New English Translation
‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'"
Amplified Bible
"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and the ungodly, And such is the place of him who does not know or recognize or honor God."
New American Standard Bible
"Certainly these are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
World English Bible
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust,And this is the place of him who does not know God."
Berean Standard Bible
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God."
Contemporary English Version
Such is the fate of sinners and their families who don't know God.
Complete Jewish Bible
"This is how things are in the homes of the wicked, and this is the place of those who don't know God."
Darby Translation
Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what will happen to the homes of those who are evil. This is the place of those who don't know God!"
George Lamsa Translation
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked, and this is the place of him who knows not God.
Good News Translation
That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.
Lexham English Bible
Surely these are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God."
Literal Translation
Surely these are the tents of the perverse, and this the place that has not known God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.
American Standard Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
King James Version (1611)
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Such are now the dwellinges of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
English Revised Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor these ben the tabernaclis of a wickid man; and this is the place of hym, that knowith not God.
Update Bible Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that doesn't know God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
New King James Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
New Living Translation
They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.'"
New Revised Standard
Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of those who do not know God."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.
Revised Standard Version
Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."
Young's Literal Translation
Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."

Contextual Overview

11 He is filled with fear on every side. It follows him at every step. 12 His strength leaves him because trouble is waiting for him at every side. 13 His skin is eaten by disease and the beginning of death eats his legs. 14 He is taken away from his tent where he was safe, and is brought to the king of fears. 15 Fire destroys everything in his tent and sulphur is spread where he lives. 16 His roots are dried below and his branch is cut off above. 17 No one on earth will remember him. His name will not be known in the land. 18 He is sent from light into darkness, and driven away from where people live. 19 He has no children among his people to carry on his name where he lived. 20 Those in the west are surprised and afraid at what happened to him. And those in the east are filled with fear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

such are: Job 18:14-16

knoweth: Job 21:14, Exodus 5:2, Judges 2:10, 1 Samuel 2:12, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Psalms 79:6, Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 10:25, Romans 1:28, 1 Thessalonians 4:5, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Titus 1:16

Reciprocal: Job 5:24 - thou shalt know Job 20:29 - the portion Proverbs 14:11 - house

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand what each other says."
Genesis 18:1
The Lord showed Himself to Abraham by the oak trees of Mamre, as he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:24
What if there are fifty good people within the city? Will You destroy the place and not save it because of the fifty good people in it?
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to save them from the power of the Egyptians. I will bring them out of that land to a good big land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Exodus 33:5
For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a strong-willed people. If I go with you even for just a little time, I would destroy you. So take off your objects of gold and silver that I may know what to do with you.'"
Deuteronomy 8:2
You will remember all the way the Lord your God led you in the desert these forty years, so you would not have pride, and how He tested you to know what was in your heart to see if you would obey His Laws or not.
Deuteronomy 13:3
do not listen to the words of that man who tells you what will happen or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is putting you to the test to see if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:22
"The Powerful One, the Lord, the Powerful One, God, the Lord! He knows! And may Israel itself know! If it was going against the Lord and not being faithful to Him, do not save us this day!
Job 34:22
There is no darkness or shadow where sinners can hide themselves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked,.... As before described; as that the light should be dark in them; a wicked man's confidence should be rooted out of them; everything shocking and dreadful should dwell in them; brimstone should be scattered on them, they should be utterly consumed, and none remaining in them,

Job 18:6. The Targum represents these as the words of the persons astonished and frightened, who at the sight of such a dismal spectacle should utter them, prefacing them thus,

"and they shall say, but these are the dwellings, c.''

and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God the place that he shall be driven to when chased out of the world, even a place of darkness and misery, Job 18:18; or "this is the case of him that knoweth not the Omnipotent", as Mr. Broughton translates the words; that is, which is above described in the several particulars of it; this is sooner or later the case of every wicked man, as Bildad supposed it now was Job's case, at least in part, or would be hereafter: one "that knows not God", is the periphrasis of a wicked man, that has no knowledge of God, at least no practical knowledge of him, that lives without God in the world, or like an atheist; such shall be punished with everlasting destruction by him, see 2 Thessalonians 1:8; either one whom "God knows not" q, so some render the words; for though God by the perfection of his omniscience knows all men, good and bad, yet there are some he knows not so as to approve of, love, and delight in, see Matthew 7:23; or rather that have no knowledge of God, who though they may know there is a God, yet do not worship and glorify him as God; and though they may profess to know him, yet in works they deny him, and however have no spiritual and experimental knowledge of him; do not know him in Christ, as the God of all grace, and as their God in him; they do not know him, so as to love him, fear, worship, and obey him.

q לא ידע אל "quem non agnoscit Deus fortis", Junius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked - The conclusion or sum of the whole matter. The meaning is, that the habitations of all that knew not God would be desolate - a declaration which Job could not but regard as aimed at himself; compare Job 20:29. This is the close of this harsh and severe speech. It is no wonder that Job should feel it keenly, and that he “did” feel it is apparent from the following chapter. A string of proverbs has been presented, having the appearance of proof, and as the result of the long observation of the course of events, evidently bearing on his circumstances, and so much in point that he could not well deny their pertinency to his condition. He was stung to the quick, and and gave vent to his agonized feelings in the following chapter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 18:21. Such are the dwellings — This is the common lot of the wicked; and it shall be particularly the case with him who knoweth not God, that is Job, for it is evident he alludes to him. Poor Job! hard was thy lot, severe were thy sufferings.

ON the elephant hunt to which I have referred, Job 18:13, I shall borrow the following account extracted from Mr. Cordiner's History of Ceylon, by Mr. Good: -

"We have a curious description of the elephant hunt, which is pursued in a manner not essentially different from the preceding, except that the snares are pallisadoed with the strongest possible stakes, instead of being netted, and still farther fortified by interlacings. They are numerous, but connected together; every snare or inclosure growing gradually narrower, and opening into each other by a gate or two that will only admit the entrance of a single animal at a time.

"The wood in which elephants are known to abound is first surrounded, excepting at the end where the foremost and widest inclosure is situated, with fires placed on moveable pedestals, which in every direction are drawn closer and closer, and, aided by loud and perpetual shouts, drive the animals forward till they enter into the outer snare. After which the same process is continued, and they are driven by fear into a second, into a third, and into a fourth; till at length the elephants become so much sub-divided, that by the aid of cordage fastened carefully round their limbs, and the management of decoy elephants, they are easily capable of being led away one by one, and tamed. A single hunt thus conducted will sometimes occupy not less than two months of unremitting labour; and the entrance of the elephants into the snares is regarded as an amusement or sport of the highest character, and as such is attended by all the principal families of the country." Account of Ceylon, p. 218-226.


 
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