Job 4:18, Rev 9:1 | JFB | STEP | 18. folly-- Imperfection is to be attributed to the angels, in comparison with Him. The holiness of some of them had given way ( ), and at best is but the holiness of a creature. Folly is the want of moral consideration [Umbreit].

‏ Job 4:18

18. folly--Imperfection is to be attributed to the angels, in comparison with Him. The holiness of some of them had given way (2Pe 2:4), and at best is but the holiness of a creature. Folly is the want of moral consideration [Umbreit].

‏ Revelation of John 9:1

CHAPTER 9 Re 9:1-21. The Fifth Trumpet: The Fallen Star Opens the Abyss Whence Issue Locusts. The Sixth Trumpet. Four Angels at the Euphrates Loosed.

1. The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from Re 8:13, the woe-trumpets.

fall--rather as Greek, "fallen." When John saw it, it was not in the act of falling, but had fallen already. This is a connecting link of this fifth trumpet with Re 12:8, 9, 12, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, for the devil is come down," &c. Compare Is 14:12, "How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!"

the bottomless pit--Greek, "the pit of the abyss"; the orifice of the hell where Satan and his demons dwell.