The Book of Job

chapter 18


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verse #1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,


verse #2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.


verse #3

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?


verse #4

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?


verse #5

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.


verse #6

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.


verse #7

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.


verse #8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.


verse #9

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.


verse #10

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.


verse #11

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.


verse #12

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.


verse #13

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.


verse #14

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.


verse #15

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.


verse #16

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.


verse #17

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.


verse #18

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.


verse #19

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.


verse #20

Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.


verse #21

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

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