Job - Chapter 18 | New International Version

  • 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
  • 2. When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
  • 3. Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
  • 4. You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
  • 5. The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
  • 6. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
  • 7. The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
  • 8. His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
  • 9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
  • 10. A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
  • 11. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
  • 12. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
  • 13. It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
  • 14. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
  • 15. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
  • 16. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
  • 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
  • 18. He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
  • 19. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
  • 20. Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
  • 21. Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."
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