Job 18:18
New International Version
He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.

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

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

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

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
“He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

NASB 1995
“He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

NASB 1977
“He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible
He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He will be thrown out from light into darkness and from the world they will reject him

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let one drive him from light into darkness.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will be driven from the light into the dark 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.

International Standard Version
He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Literal Standard Version
They thrust him from light to darkness, | And cast him out from the habitable earth.

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

New American Bible
He is driven from light into darkness, and banished from the world.

NET Bible
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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

New Heart English Bible
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.

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

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

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Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land. 18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world. 19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.…

Cross References
Job 5:14
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 20:26
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Isaiah 8:22
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.


Treasury of Scripture

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

He shall be driven.

Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Job 10:22
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 11:14
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

chased

Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 17:13,14
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind…

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Job 18
1. Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5. The calamities of the wicked














Verse 18. - He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world (comp. Job 10:21, 22; Job 17:16). What Job represents as a welcome retreat, whither he would gladly withdraw himself, Bildad depicts as a banishment, into which he will be driven on account of his sins.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He is driven
יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ (yeh·də·p̄u·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1920: To thrust, drive, push

from light
מֵא֣וֹר (mê·’ō·wr)
Preposition-m | Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

into
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

darkness
חֹ֑שֶׁךְ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

and is chased
יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃ (yə·nid·du·hū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away

from the inhabited world.
וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל (ū·mit·tê·ḇêl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land


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