“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.”
"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and such is the place of him that knows not God." The final verse of Bildad's second speech returns to the explicit connection between wickedness and punishment. The dwellings—the fate, the ultimate destination—of the wicked are as described. The person who does not know God inherits this fate. Bildad's speech is a masterpiece of retributive theology, using vivid imagery to assert that the wicked's downfall is certain and comprehensive.
Church Fathers on Job 18:21
Surely, such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. For he had said above; He shall drive him from fight into darkness, and translate him out of the world; and upon subjoining his miseries, he added; Surely, such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. In that he who is now lifted up from not knowing God, is then brought to his own ‘dwellings,’ when his own wickedness plunges him into…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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