Job - Chapter 18 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 18:1)}
  • 3. What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?
  • 4. You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?
  • 5. The light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.
  • 6. The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
  • 7. Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall---victims of their own advice.
  • 8. They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;
  • 9. a trap catches their heels and holds them.
  • 10. On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.
  • 11. All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.
  • 12. They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.
  • 13. A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.
  • 14. They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.
  • 15. Now anyone may live in their tents--- after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!
  • 16. Their roots and branches are withered and dry.
  • 17. Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.
  • 18. They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.
  • 19. They have no descendants, no survivors.
  • 20. From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.
  • 21. That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.
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