Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
18. He shall be driven ] lit. they shall drive (or, they drive) him. The subject is mankind, men; and the sinner himself is referred to, hardly, his name ( Job 18:17).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
18 20. Men’s horror of his fate and memory.
Bildad now introduces the moral instinct of mankind and the part it takes in the sinner’s downfall. The words go back somewhat on the ideas of the previous verses.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He shall be driven from light into darkness – Margin, They shall drive him. The meaning is, that he should be driven from a state of prosperity to one of calamity.
And chased out of the world – Perhaps meaning that he should not be conducted to the grave with the slow and solemn pomp of a respectful funeral, but in a hurry – as a malefactor is driven from human life, and hastily commited to the earth. The living would be glad to be rid of him, and would chase him out of life.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. He shall be driven from light] He shall be taken off by a violent death.
And chased out of the world.] The wicked is DRIVEN AWAY in his iniquity. This shows his reluctance to depart from life.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He shall be driven, Heb. they shall drive him, i.e. his enemies, or those whom he hath oppressed; or they whom God shall appoint to do it, whether angels or men. Or it is an impersonal speech, and to be rendered passively, as it is also Job 7:3; Luk 12:20; 16:9.
From light into darkness; from a splendid and prosperous life to disgrace and misery, and to the grave, the land of darkness and forgetfulness, as the following words explain it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
18. light . . .darknessexistencenonexistence.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He shall be driven from light into darkness,…. Either from the light of outward prosperity, formerly enjoyed by him, into the darkness of adversity; or rather from the light of the living, the light of the present life, to the darkness of death, and the grave, the land of darkness, and of the shadow of death, Job 10:21; and even into utter darkness, blackness of darkness, the darkness of hell, eternal darkness; opposed to the light of the divine Presence, and the inheritance of the saints in light, possessed by them to all eternity; which the wicked man is deprived of, and will have no share in, but shall be driven from the presence of God, and by him; for so the words may be rendered, “they shall drive him” n, God, Father, Son, and Spirit; God by the east wind and storm of his wrath shall carry him away, and hurl him out of his place, and shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and not spare, nor shall he flee out of his hands, though he fain would, Job 27:21; or the angels, good or bad, shall drive him into endless torments, or shall, by the divine order, take him and cast him into outward darkness, where are weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; thus are the wicked driven against their will, and must go whether they will or not, and, like beasts to the slaughter, are driven in their wickedness, in order to suffer the punishment due unto it, when the righteous hath hope in his death, Pr 14:32;
and chased out of the world; or cast out of it, as an unclean or excommunicated person, of which the word here is sometimes used o; and not only chased out of his own place, out of his own house, and out of his own country, but even out of the world, so as to have no place any more in it, see Job 20:8.
n “expellent eum”, Pagninus, Montanus; so Tigurine version, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Schultens, Cocceius, Schmidt. o “excommunicabunt cum”, Schmidt, Michaelis; so Codurcus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
18. Chased out of the world He shall not be conducted out of life, as Plato expresses it, with funereal pomp, by a numerous train of mourning citizens and relations, but shall be cast out of human society like a malefactor, and thrown underground with infamy and execration. (Scott.) The terror is heightened by the vagueness of the expression, THEY shall chase him an impersonal form for unknown agents, sent to drive him, like Adam from paradise, out of a world of which he is not worthy.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Ver. 18. He shall be driven out of light into darkness ] Heb. They shall drive him; sc. the devils shall drive him out of the light of life into outer darkness, as they did that rich wretch, Luk 12:20 ; confer Mat 8:12 ; Mat 25:30 . The Dutch translation readeth it, Men shall drive him. Others understand it to be his troubles and sorrows.
And chased out of the world
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
He shall be driven: Heb. They shall drive him, Job 3:20, Job 10:22, Job 11:14, Isa 8:21, Isa 8:22, Jud 1:13
chased: Job 20:8, Pro 14:32, Isa 17:13, Isa 17:14, Dan 4:33, Dan 5:21
Reciprocal: Est 9:10 – ten sons Job 15:23 – the day Job 15:30 – depart Job 20:27 – earth Job 21:17 – oft Job 22:11 – darkness Job 23:17 – the darkness from Job 30:26 – light Job 38:15 – from Psa 58:9 – as Pro 4:19 – General Pro 20:20 – his Ecc 11:8 – yet Jer 23:12 – in the Lam 3:2 – brought Hos 9:11 – their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.