Job 18
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Job 18
Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2“How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we shall speak.
3 #
Job 36.14; Ps 73.22 Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
4 #
Job 13.14; 14.18 You who tear yourself in your anger—
shall the earth be forsaken because of you
or the rock be removed out of its place?
5 #
Prov 13.9; 20.20; 24.20 “Surely the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of their fire does not shine.
6The light is dark in their tent,
and the lamp above them is put out.
7 #
Job 5.13; Prov 4.12 Their strong steps are shortened,
and their own schemes throw them down.
8 #
Job 22.10; Ps 9.15; 35.8 For they are thrust into a net by their own feet,
and they walk into a pitfall.
9 #
Job 5.5; Ps 140.5 A trap seizes them by the heel;
a snare lays hold of them.
10 #
Ps 69.22
A rope is hid for them in the ground,
a trap for them in the path.
11 #
Job 15.21; Jer 6.25; 20.3 Terrors frighten them on every side
and chase them at their heels.
12 #
Isa 8.21
Their strength is consumed by hunger,#18.12 Or Disaster is hungry for them
and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
13By disease their skin is consumed;#18.13 Cn: Heb It consumes the limbs of his skin
the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
14 #
Job 8.22; 15.21 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted
and are brought to the king of terrors.
15 #
Ps 11.6
In their tents nothing remains;
sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.
16 #
Isa 5.24; Hos 9.16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.
17 #
Ps 34.16; Prov 2.22; 10.7 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.
18They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 #
Isa 14.22; Jer 22.30 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.
20They of the west are appalled at their fate,
and horror seizes those of the east.
21 #
Jer 9.3; 1 Thess 4.5 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly;
such is the place of those who do not know God.”
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Job 18
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Job 18
Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2“How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we shall speak.
3 #
Job 36.14; Ps 73.22 Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
4 #
Job 13.14; 14.18 You who tear yourself in your anger—
shall the earth be forsaken because of you
or the rock be removed out of its place?
5 #
Prov 13.9; 20.20; 24.20 “Surely the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of their fire does not shine.
6The light is dark in their tent,
and the lamp above them is put out.
7 #
Job 5.13; Prov 4.12 Their strong steps are shortened,
and their own schemes throw them down.
8 #
Job 22.10; Ps 9.15; 35.8 For they are thrust into a net by their own feet,
and they walk into a pitfall.
9 #
Job 5.5; Ps 140.5 A trap seizes them by the heel;
a snare lays hold of them.
10 #
Ps 69.22
A rope is hid for them in the ground,
a trap for them in the path.
11 #
Job 15.21; Jer 6.25; 20.3 Terrors frighten them on every side
and chase them at their heels.
12 #
Isa 8.21
Their strength is consumed by hunger,#18.12 Or Disaster is hungry for them
and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
13By disease their skin is consumed;#18.13 Cn: Heb It consumes the limbs of his skin
the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
14 #
Job 8.22; 15.21 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted
and are brought to the king of terrors.
15 #
Ps 11.6
In their tents nothing remains;
sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.
16 #
Isa 5.24; Hos 9.16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.
17 #
Ps 34.16; Prov 2.22; 10.7 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.
18They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 #
Isa 14.22; Jer 22.30 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.
20They of the west are appalled at their fate,
and horror seizes those of the east.
21 #
Jer 9.3; 1 Thess 4.5 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly;
such is the place of those who do not know God.”
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