14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
14 They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house.
14 He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors.
14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
17 For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
17 Deep darkness is morning for that bunch; they make the terrors of darkness their companions in crime.
17 For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
17 The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
(Read Job 24:13-17)
See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and everlasting shame is at the end of it. See the misery of sinners; they are exposed to continual frights: yet see their folly; they are afraid of coming under the eye of men, but have no dread of God's eye, which is always upon them: they are not afraid of doing things which they are afraid of being known to do.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 18:14
Commentary on Job 18:11-21
(Read Job 18:11-21)
Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. How happy are the saints, and how indebted to the lord Jesus, by whom death is so far done away and changed, that this king of terrors is become a friend and a servant! See the wicked man's family sunk and cut off. His children shall perish, either with him or after him. Those who consult the true honour of their family, and its welfare, will be afraid of withering all by sin. The judgments of God follow the wicked man after death in this world, as a proof of the misery his soul is in after death, and as an earnest of that everlasting shame and contempt to which he shall rise in the great day. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot, Proverbs 10:7. It would be well if this report of wicked men would cause any to flee from the wrath to come, from which their power, policy, and riches cannot deliver them. But Jesus ever liveth to deliver all who trust in him. Bear up then, suffering believers. Ye shall for a little time have sorrow, but your Beloved, your Saviour, will see you again; your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh away.