Job 18:20 - Exposition

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day ; i.e. "at the time of his visitation" (comp. Psalms 37:13 , "The Lord shall laugh at him, for he seeth that his day is coming;" and Psalms 137:7 , "Remember the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem," i.e. the day of its overthrow). As they that went before were affrighted . His fate shall alarm equally his contemporaries and his successors, at possibly "the dwellers in the West and the dwellers in the East"