Job Chapter 18 of 42 about 1 min read

Job 18

What happens in this chapter

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Verse 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Verse 2. “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

Verse 3. Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

Verse 4. You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Verse 5. Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Verse 6. The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

Verse 7. His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Verse 8. For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Verse 9. A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

Verse 10. A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

Verse 11. Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

Verse 12. His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Verse 13. It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Verse 14. He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Verse 15. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

Verse 16. The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Verse 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Verse 18. He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Verse 19. He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Verse 20. Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Verse 21. Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”