Job - Chapter 18 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
  • 2. "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
  • 3. Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
  • 4. You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
  • 5. "Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
  • 6. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
  • 7. His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.
  • 8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
  • 9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
  • 10. A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
  • 11. Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
  • 12. His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
  • 13. It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
  • 14. He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
  • 15. In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
  • 16. His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
  • 17. His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
  • 18. He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
  • 19. He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
  • 20. They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
  • 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God."
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