Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Cross-references
In Job 20:8, Zophar uses the same imagery of the wicked being chased away like a dream, reinforcing Bildad's description of being driven from light.
Job 10:22 describes the land of darkness and shadow of death, the same realm the wicked is driven into in Job 18:18.
Job 15:23 describes the wicked wandering in darkness, closely matching the driven-from-light imagery in Bildad's speech.
Job 15:30 says the wicked will not escape darkness and will be carried away, paralleling being chased out of the world.
In Job 21:17, Job questions Bildad's claim by asking how often the wicked's lamp is actually snuffed out — challenging the certainty of the fate described here.
Job 30:26 mirrors this: Job looked for light but got darkness — the same reversal of expectation applied to the righteous sufferer.
In Job 38:15, God confirms that the wicked are denied their light — directly supporting Bildad's claim about being driven from light.
In Job 23:17, Job asserts he is not silenced by darkness — contrasting with the wicked who are driven into darkness and silenced.
Job 22:11 describes darkness and peril as judgment from Eliphaz — echoing the darkness into which the wicked are driven here.
Jude 1:13 describes the wicked reserved for blackness of darkness, matching the darkness judgment in Job 18:18.
In Isaiah 8:22, the people are driven to darkness, directly echoing the fate of the wicked in Job 18:18.
Proverbs 20:20 warns that cursing parents leads to a lamp snuffed out in darkness — a similar fate to being driven from light.
Jeremiah 23:12 says the wicked will be driven away into darkness — nearly identical imagery to being driven from light into darkness here.
Lamentations 3:2 echoes being driven into darkness, using the same imagery of forced exile from light.
Proverbs 4:19 says the way of the wicked is deep darkness — echoing the fate of being driven from light into darkness here.
Proverbs 14:32 states the wicked are brought down by calamity, paralleling the fate of being driven from light and chased out.
Daniel 4:33 recounts Nebuchadnezzar being driven away from people, a literal fulfillment of being chased out, though for humbling.
Daniel 5:21 repeats the same event of Nebuchadnezzar driven from people, paralleling the fate of being chased out.
Isaiah 17:13 describes enemies driven like chaff before the wind, echoing the image of being chased out of the world.