KJV King James Version
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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Job 18:14
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
WEB World English Bible
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
ASV American Standard Version
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
Surrounding context — Job 18
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.Job 41:34He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.Psalm 55:4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.Job 8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.Hebrews 2:15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.Job 24:17For 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.Matthew 7:26-27And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:1 Corinthians 15:55-56O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.Job 8:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web.Psalm 112:10The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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