Job 18 — Legacy Standard Bible

Bildad Speaks of the Downfall of the Wicked

18Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²“How long until you put an end to your words?Show understanding and then we can talk.³“Why are we ^aregarded as beasts,As dense in your eyes?⁴“O ¹you who tear yourself in your anger—For your sake is the earth to be forsaken,Or the rock to be moved from its place?⁵“Indeed, the ^alight of the wicked goes out,And the ¹flame of his fire gives no light.⁶“The light in his tent is ^adarkened,And his lamp goes out above him.⁷“His ¹vigorous stride is shortened,And his ^aown counsel brings him down.⁸“For he is ^athrown into the net by his own feet,And he steps on the netting.⁹“A snare seizes him by the heel,And a device snaps shut on him.¹⁰“A rope for him is hidden in the ground,And a trap for him on the path.¹¹“All around ^aterrors frighten him,And ^bharass him at every step.¹²“His vigor is ^afamished,And disaster is ready at his side.¹³“The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin;It ^aeats parts of him.¹⁴“He is ^atorn from ¹the security of his tent,And ²they march him in step before the king of ^bterrors.¹⁵“¹There dwells in his tent nothing of his;^aBrimstone is scattered on his abode.¹⁶“His ^aroots are dried below,And his ^bbranch is cut off above.¹⁷“^aMemory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name abroad.¹⁸“¹He is driven from light ^ainto darkness,And ^bchased from the inhabited world.¹⁹“He has neither ^aoffspring nor posterity among his people,Nor any survivor where he sojourned.²⁰“Those ¹in the west are appalled at ^ahis ²fate,And those ³in the east are seized with horror.²¹“Surely such are the ^adwellings of the unjust,And this is the place of him who does not know God.”