Job 18
Bildad Speaks of the Wicked
1Then Bildad the Shuhite ▼▼ Lit answered and said
responded, 2“How long will you hunt for words?Show understanding and then we can talk.
3“Why are we bregarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
4“O ▼
▼ Lit he...tears himself...his
you who tear yourself in your anger—For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
5“Indeed, the dlight of the wicked goes out,
And the ▼
▼ Lit spark
flame of his fire gives no light.6“The light in his tent is fdarkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
7“His ▼
▼ Lit steps of his strength
vigorous stride is shortened,And his hown scheme brings him down.
8“For he is ithrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
9“A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
10“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.
11“All around jterrors frighten him,
And kharry him at every step.
12“His strength is lfamished,
And calamity is ready at his side.
13 ▼
▼ Heb It eats parts of his skin
“His skin is devoured by disease,The firstborn of death ndevours his ▼
▼ Or parts
limbs.14“He is ptorn from ▼
▼ Lit his tent his trust
the security of his tent,And ▼
▼ Or you or she shall march
they march him before the king of sterrors.15 ▼
▼ A suggested reading is Fire dwells in his tent
“There dwells in his tent nothing of his;uBrimstone is scattered on his habitation.
16“His vroots are dried below,
And his wbranch is cut off above.
17 x“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
18 ▼
▼ Lit They drive him...And chase him
“He is driven from light zinto darkness,And aachased from the inhabited world.
19“He has no aboffspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
20“Those ▼
▼ Lit who come after
in the west are appalled at adhis ▼▼ Lit day
fate,And those ▼
▼ Lit who have gone before
in the east are seized with horror.21“Surely such are the agdwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
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