Job 18 · Clearspring

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,+ ²How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.+ ³Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?+ ⁴But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?+ ⁵For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.+ ⁶The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.+ ⁷The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.+ ⁸His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.+ ⁹His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.+ ¹⁰The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.+ ¹¹He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.+ ¹²His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.+ ¹³His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.+ ¹⁴He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.+ ¹⁵In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.+ ¹⁶Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.+ ¹⁷His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.+ ¹⁸He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.+ ¹⁹He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.+ ²⁰At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.+ ²¹Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.+

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

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