| 1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, |
| 2 | How long will you lay snares for words
and
have to hunt for your argument? Do some clear thinking, and then we will reply. |
| 3 | Why are we counted as beasts [as if we had no sense]? Why are we unclean 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 | Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. |
| 6 | The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp beside him shall be put out. |
| 7 | The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel
and
the plans in which he trusted shall bring about his downfall. |
| 8 | For the wicked is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a lattice-covered pit. |
| 9 | A trap will catch him by the heel, and a snare will lay hold on him. |
| 10 | A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him in the way. |
| 11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall chase him at his heels. |
| 12 | The strength [of the wicked] shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side [if he halts]. |
| 13 | By disease his strength
and
his skin shall be devoured; the firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] shall consume his limbs. |
| 14 | He shall be rooted out of his dwelling place in which he trusted, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors [death]. |
| 15 | There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his [family]; sulphur shall be scattered over his dwelling [to purify it after his going]. |
| 16 | The roots [of the wicked] shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off
and
wither. |
| 17 | His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. |
| 18 | He shall be thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world. |
| 19 | He shall neither have son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned. |
| 20 | They [of the west] that come after [the wicked man] shall be astonished
and
appalled at his day, as they [of the east] that went before were seized with horror. |
| 21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, and such is the place of him who knows not (recognizes not and honors not) God. |
Cross references:
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Job 18:5 : Prov. 13:9; 24:20.
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Job 18:6 : Ps. 18:28.
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