Job 18:18
Good News Translation
They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Contemporary English Version
thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

New American Bible
He is driven from light into darkness, and banished from the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

He shall be driven.

Job 3:20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Job 10:22 A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Job 11:14 If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

Isaiah 8:21,22 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards. . . .

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

chased

Job 20:8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 17:13,14 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest. . . .

Daniel 4:33 At the same time my sense returned to me, and I came to the honour and glory of my kingdom: and my shape returned to me: and my nobles, and my magistrates, sought for me, and I was restored to my kingdom: and greater majesty was added to me.

Daniel 5:21 And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
17Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets. 18He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.19His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.…
Cross References
Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 18:11
Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Job 20:26
All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

Job 27:21
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

Job 27:23
He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.

Isaiah 22:18
He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.

Job 18:17
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