What Does Job 18:14 Mean in the King James?
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew pictures confidence being severed from its shelter, after which terror itself becomes the ruler that leads.
THE MEANING
When confidence is lodged in a shelter that can be stripped away, its loss leaves a person exposed to terror’s rule. The verse places security and terror side by side, showing how quickly one can give way to the other.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Confidence alone cannot make a refuge permanent.
THE ROOT
יִנָּתֵק
yinnāṯēq
GROWS FROM
נתק
To detach, tear loose, or sever.
“rooted out” in this verse is yinnāṯēq. The Hebrew verb means being torn loose, so the image is sharper than confidence simply fading: it is cut away from the shelter that held it. The next phrase makes terror the force that leads once that bond is broken.
ALSO GROWS
nāṯaq: To tear away or detach.
נָתַק
It names the severing at the center of the verse’s image.
nittaq: To be torn away or disconnected.
נִתַּק
This form echoes the verse’s picture of security being forcibly separated from its shelter.
מִבְטָחוֹ
mivṭāḥô
GROWS FROM
בטח
To feel secure, trust, or rely upon.
The word translated “confidence” is built from the root for trusting and feeling secure; it can name a refuge or the security placed in one. English can make confidence sound like an inner mood, while the Hebrew holds it close to the place or thing a person relies on.
ALSO GROWS
bāṭaḥ: To trust or feel secure.
בָּטַח
The verb reveals that confidence is a kind of reliance, not just a feeling.
mibṭāḥ: Security, confidence, or refuge.
מִבְטָח
This noun shows how the same root can name both a person’s security and the refuge where it rests.
beṭaḥ: Securely, in safety.
בֶּטַח
This related form carries the root’s sense of being settled in safety.
THE PATTERN
Security fastened to what can fail collapses into exposure when its shelter gives way.
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.THE THREAD
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.The word translated “trust” here is מִבְטָחוֹ (mivṭāḥô), from the same root בטח (bāṭaḥ, to trust or feel secure) as “confidence” in Job 18:14. Job 8 gives that security the image of a spider’s web; Job 18 shows it torn from its shelter and replaced by terror’s rule.
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