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Job 18:18

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
He shall be driven 1920
{1920} Prime
הָדַף
Hadaph
{haw-daf'}
A primitive root; to push away or down.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
from light 216
{0216} Prime
אוֹר
'owr
{ore}
From H0215; illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.).
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
into x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
darkness, 2822
{2822} Prime
חֹשֶׁךְ
choshek
{kho-shek'}
From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.
and chased 5074
{5074} Prime
נָדַד
nadad
{naw-dad'}
A primitive root; properly to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away.
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
out of the world. 8398
{8398} Prime
תֵּבֵל
tebel
{tay-bale'}
From H2986; the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension the globe; by implication its inhabitants; specifically a particular land, as Babylonia or Palestine.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 18:18

_ _ light ... darkness — existence — nonexistence.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 18:11-21.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 18:18

Darkness — From a prosperous life to disgrace and misery, and to the grave, the land of darkness.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 18:18

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

(m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
He shall be driven:
Heb. They shall drive him,
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.
Isaiah 8:21-22 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. ... And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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. ... And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
Daniel 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Jb 3:20; 10:22; 11:14; 20:8. Pv 14:32. Is 8:21; 17:13. Dn 4:33; 5:21. Jde 1:13.

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