Job 18:18

In 11 translations

BSB

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

KJV

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.He…: Heb. They shall drive him

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.

YLT

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

DBY

He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

DRC

He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

GNV

They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

JPS

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

LXXE

Let one drive him from light into darkness.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ מֵא֣וֹר אֶל־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀπώσειεν αὐτὸν ἐκ φωτὸς εἰς σκότος.

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• Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
• Isaiah 17:13–14The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale. In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before…
• Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
• Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
• Daniel 4:33At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an…
• Isaiah 8:21–22They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and…
• Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
• Daniel 5:21He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High…

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