| 18.1 |
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, |
| 18.2 |
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. |
| 18.3 |
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight? |
| 18.4 |
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? |
| 18.5 |
“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine. |
| 18.6 |
The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out. |
| 18.7 |
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down. |
| 18.8 |
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh. |
| 18.9 |
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. |
| 18.10 |
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path. |
| 18.11 |
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels. |
| 18.12 |
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side. |
| 18.13 |
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members. |
| 18.14 |
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors. |
| 18.15 |
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. |
| 18.16 |
His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off. |
| 18.17 |
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street. |
| 18.18 |
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. |
| 18.19 |
He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived. |
| 18.20 |
Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. |
| 18.21 |
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.” |