the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 18:14
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They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
They are torn from the safety of their tents and dragged off to Death, the King of Terrors.
He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
"He is torn from his tent which he trusted [for safety], And he is marched and brought to the king of terrors (death).
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
His trist be takun awei fro his tabernacle; and perischyng, as a kyng, aboue trede on hym.
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Those sinners are dragged from the safety of their tents to die a gruesome death.
He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
What he relied on will be torn from his tent, and he will be marched before the king of terrors.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
They will be taken away from the safety of their tents and be led away to meet death, the king of terrors.
That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
His confidence shalbe rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrours.
He is taken away from his tent where he was safe, and is brought to the king of fears.
They are torn from the tent in which they trusted, and are brought to the king of terrors.
His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, & shal cause him to go to the King of feare.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought hastily by the kings executioner.
They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.
Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare.
And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
He is ripped from the security of his tentand marched away to the king of terrors.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
He is torn from his tent in which he trusted, and it brought him to the king of terrors.
His hope shall be rooted out of his tent, and you marched to the king of terrors.
Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge.
"He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors.
"He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
He is torn from the security of his tent,And they march him in step before the king of terrors.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
confidence: Job 8:14, Job 11:20, Psalms 112:10, Proverbs 10:28, Matthew 7:26, Matthew 7:27
the king: Job 24:17, Job 41:34, Psalms 55:4, Proverbs 14:32, 1 Corinthians 15:55, 1 Corinthians 15:56, Hebrews 2:15
Reciprocal: Job 8:13 - the hypocrite's Job 8:15 - it shall not stand Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Job 18:21 - such are Psalms 52:5 - pluck Proverbs 14:11 - house Proverbs 21:12 - wisely
Cross-References
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord 'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,.... That which his confidence was placed in, his wealth and riches, his family, particularly his children, in all which he placed his confidence of future prosperity and happiness; these should be all taken away from him, and his house cleared of them all; or his good, sound, and healthful constitution, on account of which he promised himself long life, this he should be deprived of, and it should be taken out of the tabernacle of his body; or his hope and confidence of eternal happiness in another world, this should perish, and be as the giving up of the ghost: or the words may be rendered, "he shall be rooted out of his tabernacle [which was] his confidence" b; that is, his soul shall be taken out of his body by death, in which it dwelt as in a tabernacle, and where he hoped to have had a long continuance; death is a rooting of a man out of it, and even out of the world, see
Psalms 52:5;
and it shall bring him to the king of terrors; either famine, by which his strength is weakened, or destruction that is at his side, or the firstborn of death, or his vain confidence: or this may be the sense, "thou (O God) wilt bring him", or "cause him to go to the king of terrors" c; to death; all men are brought unto it, but not all unto it as a king of terrors; as good men, such as Simeon, the Apostle Paul, and others, but wicked men. Death is a king: it reigns, it has a large empire, even the whole world; its subjects are numerous, all, high and low, rich and poor, great and small; and the duration of its reign is long, it reigned from Adam to Moses, from Moses to the coming of Christ, and from thence to this day, and will to the end of the world, and it reigns with an irresistible power: and this king is a king of terrors to wicked men; it is, as Aristotle d calls it, the most terrible of terribles; it is terrible to nature, being a dissolution of it; and it must be terrible to mere natural men, who have nothing to support them under it, and no views beyond the grave to comfort them, and cause them to go cheerful through it; but, on the other hand, have not only the bitterness of death to endure, but have terrible apprehensions of a future judgment that comes after it. Some render it, "the king of darkness" e, extreme darkness, blackness of darkness, utter darkness, which wicked men at death are brought unto. Jarchi interprets it of the king of demons, the devil; and to be brought to him is to be brought to hell and eternal damnation: so some render it, "terrors shall bring him to his king" f, the devil; or rather "terrors shall come upon him like a king" g, in a very grand, powerful, and formidable manner.
b Michaelis. c De Dieu. d Ethic. l. 3. c. 9. e למלך בלהות "ad regem caliginum", Cocceius. f Schmidt. g "Instar regis", Schultens; "quasi rex", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle - Security shall forsake his dwelling, and he shall be subject to constant alarms. There shall be nothing there in which he can confide, and all that he relied on as sources of safety shall have fled.
And it shall bring him - That is, he shall be brought.
To the king of terrors - There has been much variety in the explanation of this verse. Dr. Noyes renders it, “Terror pursues him like a king.” Dr. Good, “Dissolution shall invade him like a monarch.” Dr. Stock says. “I am sorry to part with a beautiful phrase in our common version, the king of terrors, as descriptive of death, but there is no authority for it in the Hebrew text.” Wemyss renders it, “Terror shall seize him as a king.” So Schultens translates it, “Gradientur in eum, instar regis, terrores.” Rosenmuller renders it as it is in our version. The Vulgate: Et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitus - “destruction shall tread upon him as a king.” The Septuagint “and distress shall lay hold on him with the authority of a king” - αἰτίᾳ βασιλικῃ satia basilikē. The Chaldee renders it, “shall be brought to the king of terrors” - רגושתא למלך is not evident, therefore, that we are to give up the beautiful phrase, “king of terrors.”
The fair construction of the Hebrew, as it seems to me, is that which is conveyed in our common version - meaning, that the wicked man would be conducted, not merely to death, but to that kind of death where a fearful king would preside - a monarch infusing terrors into his soul. There is something singularly beautiful and appropriate in the phrase, “the king of terrors.” Death is a fearful monarch. All dread him. He presides in regions of chilliness and gloom. All fear to enter those dark regions where he dwells and reigns, and an involuntary shudder seizes the soul on approaching the confines of his kingdom. Yet all must be brought there; and though man dreads the interview with that fearful king, there is no release. The monarch reigns from age to age - reigns over all. There is but one way in which he will cease to appear as a terrific king. - It is by confidence in Him who came to destroy death; that great Redeemer who has taken away his “sting,” and who can enable man to look with calmness and peace even on the chilly regions where he reigns. The idea here is not precisely that of the Roman and Grecian mythologists, of a terrific king, like Rhadamanthus, presiding over the regions of the dead but it is of death personified - of death represented as a king fitted to inspire awe and terror.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 18:14. His confidence shall be rooted out — His dwelling-place, how well soever fortified, shall now he deemed utterly insecure.
And it shall bring him to the king of terrors. — Or, as Mr. Good translates, "And dissolution shall invade him as a monarch." He shall be completely and finally overpowered.
The phrase king of terrors has been generally thought to mean death; but it is not used in any such way in the text. For למלך בלהות lemelech ballahoth, to the king of destructions, one of De Rossi's MSS. has כמלך kemelech, "as a king;" and one, instead of בלהות ballahoth, with ו vau holem, to indicate the plural, terrors or destructions, has בלהות ballahuth, with ו vau shurek, which is singular, and signifies terror, destruction. So the Vulgate seems to have read, as it translates, Et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitis; "And shall tread upon him as a king or destroyer. Or as a king who is determined utterly to destroy him." On this verse the bishop of Killala, Dr. Stock, says, "I am sorry to part with a beautiful phrase in our common version, the king of terrors, as descriptive of death; but there is no authority for it in the Hebrew text."
It may however be stated that death has been denominated by similar epithets both among the Greeks and Romans,
So Virgil, AEn. vi., ver. 100.
________Quando hic inferni janua regis
Dicitur.
"The gates of the king of hell are reported to be here."
And OVID, Metam. lib. v., ver. 356, 359.
Inde tremit tellus: et rex pavit ipse silentum.
Hanc metuens cladem, tenebrosa sede tyrannus
Exierat.
"Earth's inmost bowels quake, and nature groans;
His terrors reach the direful KING of HELL.
Fearing this destruction, the tyrant left his
gloomy court."
And in SOPHOCLES, (OEdip. Colon., ver. 1628, edit. Johnson.)
Εννυχιων αναξ,
Αιδωνευ.
"O Pluto, king of shades." That is, the invisible demon, who dwells in darkness impenetrable.
Old COVERDALE translates: Very fearfulnesse shall bringe him to the kynge.
