Job 18 · Clearspring

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,+ ²How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.+ ³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?+ ⁴He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?+ ⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.+ ⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.+ ⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.+ ⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.+ ⁹The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.+ ¹⁰The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.+ ¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.+ ¹²His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.+ ¹³It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.+ ¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.+ ¹⁵It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.+ ¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.+ ¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.+ ¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.+ ¹⁹He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.+ ²⁰They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.+ ²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.+

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

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