He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I.
Commenting on Job 18:11-21
It shall dwell in his tabernacle,.... What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are made; the Targum is, "his wife shall dwell in a tabernacle not his;'' and to the same purpose Jarchi; as if it was one part of the punishment of a wicked man, that he should leave a widow behind him, and...
confidence--all that the father trusted in for domestic happiness, children, fortune, &c., referring to Job's losses. rooted out--suddenly torn away, it shall bring--that is, he shall be brought; or, as UMBREIT better has, "Thou (God) shalt bring him slowly." The Hebrew expresses, "to stride slowly and solemnly." The godless has a fearful death for long before his eyes, and is at last taken by it. Alluding to Job's case.