Job 18
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- עַלʻalH59217× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- לֹאlôʼH38085× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- אֹהֶלʼôhelH1683× in this chapter
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
- אוֹרʼôwrH2163× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7763× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- בַּלָּהָהballâhâhH10912× in this chapter
alarm; hence, destruction
- דָּעַךְdâʻakH18462× in this chapter
to be extinguished; figuratively, to expire or be dried up
- אוֹןʼôwnH2022× in this chapter
ability, power, (figuratively) wealth
- אָחַזʼâchazH2702× in this chapter
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
- אָכַלʼâkalH3982× in this chapter
to eat (literally or figuratively)
- מָקוֹםmâqôwmH47252× in this chapter
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
- רֶגֶלregelH72722× in this chapter
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
- בַּדbadH9052× in this chapter
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
- בְּכוֹרbᵉkôwrH10601× in this chapter
firstborn; hence, chief
- בִּלְדַּדBildadH10851× in this chapter
Bildad, one of Job's friends
- בְּלִיbᵉlîyH10971× in this chapter
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
- בָּעַתbâʻathH12041× in this chapter
to fear
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- גׇּפְרִיתgophrîythH16141× in this chapter
properly, cypress-resin; by analogy, sulphur (as equally inflammable)
- דָבַרdâbarH16961× in this chapter
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
- הָדַףHâdaphH19201× in this chapter
to push away or down
- הָיָהhâyâhH19611× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- זֶהzehH20881× in this chapter
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
- זֵכֶרzêkerH21431× in this chapter
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
- זָרָהzârâhH22191× in this chapter
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
- חֶבֶלchebelH22561× in this chapter
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
- חוּץchûwtsH23511× in this chapter
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
- חָזַקchâzaqH23881× in this chapter
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
- חָשַׁבchâshabH28031× in this chapter
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
- חָשַׁךְchâshakH28211× in this chapter
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
- חֹשֶׁךְchôshekH28221× in this chapter
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
- טָמָהṭâmâhH29331× in this chapter
to be impure in a religious sense
- טָמַןṭâmanH29341× in this chapter
to hide (by covering over)
- טָרַףṭâraphH29631× in this chapter
to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
- יָבֵשׁyâbêshH30011× in this chapter
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
- יָדַעyâdaʻH30451× in this chapter
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
- אַחַרʼacharH3101× in this chapter
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
- יוֹםyôwmH31171× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- אַחֲרוֹןʼachărôwnH3141× in this chapter
hinder; generally, late or last; specifically (as facing the east) western