Job 18
Bildad responds to Job, saying that the wicked will be punished and their light will be extinguished, their strength will be diminished by famine, and their memory will perish from the earth. The wicked will be trapped and terrified everywhere, and their offspring will not exist among their people. Bildad concludes that this is the fate of the sinful, who do not know God.
1But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying2How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak3Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you4You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place5Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine6Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished7His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably8For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web9His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him10A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path11Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet12Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs13Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms14Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king15Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle16Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above17Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world19Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country20The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror21And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God
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