| Geneva Study Bible They that come after him shall be astonied at his {n} day, as they that went before were affrighted. (n) When they will see what came to him. Wesley's Notes 18:20 Astonied - At the day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness of it. Before - Before the persons last mentioned. Those who lived in the time and place where this judgment was inflicted. King James Translators' Notes went...: or, lived with him were...: Heb. laid hold on horror Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 20. after . before-rather, "those in the West-those in the East"; that is, all people; literally, "those behind-those before"; for Orientals in geography turn with their faces to the east (not to the north as we), and back to the west; so that before-east; behind-north (so Zec 14:8). day-of ruin (Ob 12). affrighted-seized with terror (Job 21:6; Isa 13:8). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 18:11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. How happy are the saints, and how indebted to the lord Jesus, by whom death is so far done away and changed, that this king of terrors is become a friend and a servant! See the wicked man's family sunk and cut off. His children shall perish, either with him or after him. Those who consult the true honour of their family, and its welfare, will be afraid of withering all by sin. The judgments of God follow the wicked man after death in this world, as a proof of the misery his soul is in after death, and as an earnest of that everlasting shame and contempt to which he shall rise in the great day. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot, Pr 10:7. It would be well if this report of wicked men would cause any to flee from the wrath to come, from which their power, policy, and riches cannot deliver them. But Jesus ever liveth to deliver all who trust in him. Bear up then, suffering believers. Ye shall for a little time have sorrow, but your Beloved, your Saviour, will see you again; your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh away. | 
