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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 18:18

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - World (Cosmological);  

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.
Amplified Bible
"He is driven and propelled from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited 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.
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 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet. 12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; 13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; 14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors; 15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling; 16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch; 17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field; 18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; 19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn: 20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

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
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo! three men, standing over against him, - so he looked and ran to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bowed himself to the earth;
Genesis 18:3
and said, - O My Lord! if, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, do not I pray thee pass on from thy servant.
Genesis 18:17
Now, Yahweh, had said, - Am I going to hide from Abraham what I do,
Genesis 18:18
when, Abraham, shall surely become, a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth, shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee! to do after this manner. to put to death the righteous with the lawless! Then should righteous and lawless be alike, Far be it from thee! Shall, the Judge of all the earth not do justice?
Genesis 18:26
And Yahweh said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then will I spare all the place for their sake.
Genesis 26:4
and will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and will give to thy seed, all these lands, - And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in thy seed:
Psalms 72:17
May his Name he age-abiding, In the presence of the sun, let his Name flourish, - And may all the families of the ground bless themselves in him, All nations, pronounce him happy!
Galatians 3:8
And, the scripture, foreseeing, that, by faith, God would declare the nations righteous, fore-announced the good news unto Abraham, saying, All the nations shall be blessed in thee.
Galatians 3:14
In order that, unto the nations, the blessing of Abraham, might come about in Jesus Christ, - in order that, the promise of the Spirit, we might receive through means of the 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.


 
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