Job 18:4
Good News Translation
You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?

New Revised Standard Version
You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

Contemporary English Version
You cut yourself in anger. Will that shake the earth or even move the rocks? *

New American Bible
You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be neglected on your account or the rock be moved out of its place?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

teareth

Job 5:2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Job 13:14 Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Job 16:9 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. [10] He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.

Jonah 4:9 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Mark 9:18 Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.

Luke 9:39 And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he throweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising him, he hardly departeth from him.

himself.

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

the rock

Job 14:18 A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.

Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
3Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you? 4Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?5Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?…
Cross References
Job 18:3
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

Job 18:3
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