Job 18
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1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.2How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?4You who tear yourself in anger-- should the earth be abandoned on your account, or a rock be removed from its place?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out.
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.7His powerful stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.
9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.9A trap catches him by the heel; a noose seizes him.
10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.10A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare waits for him along the path.
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.12His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.13Parts of his skin are eaten away; death's firstborn consumes his limbs.
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.14He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.15Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.16His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.17All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.18He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.
19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.19He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live.
20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.21Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man, and this is the place of the one who does not know God.
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