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Job 18

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

²"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

³Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵"Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

⁶The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

⁷His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

⁹A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

¹⁰A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

¹²His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

¹³By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

¹⁴He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

¹⁷His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

¹⁸He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

¹⁹He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

²⁰They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."

Job 18 (RSV)

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Job

Chapter 18

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