Job 18:20
Good News Translation
From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.

New Revised Standard Version
They of the west are appalled at their fate, and horror seizes those of the east.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone, from east to west, is overwhelmed with horror.

New American Bible
Those who come after shall be appalled at his fate; those who went before are seized with horror.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

astonied

Deuteronomy 29:23,24 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: . . .

1 Kings 9:8 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Jeremiah 18:16 That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

his day

Psalm 37:13 But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Ezekiel 21:25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity:

Obadiah 1:11-15 For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever. . . .

Luke 19:42,44 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. . . .

went.

Job 2:12,13 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. . . .

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
19His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country. 20They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.21These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.…
Cross References
Job 24:22
He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.

Psalm 37:13
But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

Jeremiah 50:27
Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Obadiah 1:12
In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Job 18:19
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