The Meaning of Job 18:16 Explained

Job 18:16

KJV: His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

YLT: From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

Darby: His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

ASV: His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:16?

MEANING: What does Job 18:16 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:16 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:16?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

His roots  shall be dried up  beneath, and above  shall his branch  be cut off. 

What does Job 18:16 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 18:1-21 - "cast Into A Net"
Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls.
His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11; their destruction, Job 18:12-17; the horror with which men shall regard their fate, Job 18:18-21. All this was, of course, intended for Job. It was very severe. Even if the worst had been true, his extreme sufferings should have elicited more tenderness from his friends. Only the strong, wise hand of love can assuage the wounds that sin has made. We are indebted to Bildad for the phrase, king of terrors, as applied to death, Job 18:14. Apart from Christ, it is a significant and appropriate term. Sin has made his monarchy terrible. Yet even he has met his conqueror, John 11:25-26; Hebrews 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26.
The ancients had a deep presentiment of the punishments which must overtake sin. Probably we make too little of them. The note of fear has almost died out of modern preaching. In this there is a marked divergence from Baxter's Call to the Unconverted and from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. But the doom of sin can only be terrible, especially for those to whom Calvary has pleaded in vain. A great atonement implies great sin, and this, a great penalty. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 18

1  Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5  The calamities of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 18:16 mean?

Below His roots are dried out and above withers his branch
מִ֭תַּחַת שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו יִבָ֑שׁוּ וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַל יִמַּ֥ל קְצִירֽוֹ

מִ֭תַּחַת  Below 
Parse: Preposition-m
Root: מִתְחָה 
Sense: the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas.
שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו  His  roots 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: שֹׁרֶשׁ  
Sense: root.
יִבָ֑שׁוּ  are  dried  out 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָבֵשׁ  
Sense: to make dry, wither, be dry, become dry, be dried up, be withered.
וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַל  and  above 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Adverb
Root: מַעַל 
Sense: higher part, upper part adv.
יִמַּ֥ל  withers 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: מָלַל 
Sense: (Qal) to circumcise, become clipped, be circumcised, be cut off.
קְצִירֽוֹ  his  branch 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: קָצִיר 
Sense: harvest, harvesting.

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