Job 18:20

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

19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
KJV
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
WEB
Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
ASV
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.
DARBY
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
BLB
Those in the west are devastated at his day, and those in the east are seized with horror.
ÅB
Over hans dag[^2] forferdes de som bor i Vesten, og de som bor i Østen, gripes av redsel.
OTB
De i vest er forferdet over hans skjebne,
og de i øst er fylt med frykt.
B1930
Over hans dag forferdes de som bor i Vesten, og de som bor i Østen, gripes av redsel. / < d.e. hans undergangs dag.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 37:13

    The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

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  • Jeremiah 50:27

    Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

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  • Ezekiel 21:25

    And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

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  • Jeremiah 18:16

    To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

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  • Obadiah 1:11–15

    In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

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  • Luke 19:42

    Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

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  • Deuteronomy 29:23–24

    And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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  • Luke 19:44

    And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

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