【Job】Chapter 18 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said:

18:2 When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.

18:3 Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight?

18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be neglected on your account (or the rock be moved out of its place)?

18:5 Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth.

18:6 The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out.

18:7 His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down.

18:8 For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall.

18:9 A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him.

18:10 A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way.

18:11 On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step.

18:12 Disaster is ready at his side,

18:13 the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

18:14 Fiery destruction lodges in his tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked from the security of his tent;

18:15 over his abode brimstone is scattered.

18:16 Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither.

18:17 His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth.

18:18 He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world.

18:19 He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt.

18:20 They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror.

18:21 So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and such is the place of him who knows not God!

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