Job 18
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- 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
- 2How long will it be before you make an end of words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.
- 3"Why are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your sight?"
- 4"You who tear yourself in your anger — shall the earth be forsaken for your sake? And shall the rock be moved out of its place?"
- 5"Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine."
- 6"The light shall be dark in his tent, and his candle shall be put out with him."
- 7"The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down."
- 8"For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare."
- 9"A trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him."
- 10"A snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the path."
- 11"Terrors shall frighten him on every side and shall drive him to his feet."
- 12His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
- 13"It shall devour the strength of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his strength."
- 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
- 15"It shall dwell in his tent, because it is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his dwelling."
- 16"His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off."
- 17"His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street."
- 18"He shall be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world."
- 19"He shall have neither son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings."
- 20"Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened."
- 21"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God."