Job Chapter 18 Back Next{18:1} Then
Bildad the Shuhite answered,
{18:2} "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
{18:3} Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
{18:4} You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the
earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
{18:5} "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his
fire shall not shine.
{18:6} The light shall be dark in his tent. His
lamp above him shall be put out.
{18:7} The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
{18:8} For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
{18:9} A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
{18:10} A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.
{18:11} Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
{18:12} His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
{18:13} The members of his body shall be devoured. The
firstborn of
death shall devour his members.
{18:14} He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
{18:15} There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his
habitation.
{18:16} His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
{18:17} His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
{18:18} He shall be driven from light into
darkness, and chased out of the world.
{18:19} He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
{18:20} Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
{18:21} Surely such are the
dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
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