Job 18 · Clearspring

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,+ ²“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.+ ³Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?+ ⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?+ ⁵“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.+ ⁶The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.+ ⁷The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.+ ⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.+ ⁹A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.+ ¹⁰A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.+ ¹¹Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.+ ¹²His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.+ ¹³The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.+ ¹⁴He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.+ ¹⁵There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulphur will be scattered on his habitation.+ ¹⁶His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.+ ¹⁷His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.+ ¹⁸He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.+ ¹⁹He will have neither son nor grandson amongst his people, nor any remaining where he lived.+ ²⁰Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.+ ²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”+

Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

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