Job 18
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Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:+ 2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.+ 3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?+ 4You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?+ 5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.+ 6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.+ 7His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.+ 8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.+ 9A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.+ 10A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.+ 11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.+ 12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.+ 13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.+ 14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.+ 15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.+ 16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.+ 17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.+ 18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.+ 19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.+ 20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.+ 21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”+

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