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.
But Baldad the Suhite responded by sayingHow long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speakWhy have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before youYou, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their placeWill not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shineLight will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguishedHis strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollablyFor he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its webHis heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against himA trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his pathHorrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feetLet his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribsLet it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his armsLet his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a kingLet the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacleLet his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from aboveLet the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streetsHe will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the worldNeither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his countryThe last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horrorAnd so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God
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