Job 18 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

Job 18:1

Job 18:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 18:2

How long will ye hunt for words?

Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts,

And are become unclean in your sight?

Job 18:4

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,

Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?

Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,

And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent,

And his lamp above him shall be put out.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened,

And his own counsel shall cast him down.

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

And he walketh upon the toils.

Job 18:9

A gin shall take him by the heel,

And a snare shall lay hold on him.

Job 18:10

A noose is hid for him in the ground,

And a trap for him in the way.

Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,

And shall chase him at his heels.

Job 18:12

His strength shall be hunger-bitten,

And calamity shall be ready at his side.

Job 18:13

The members of his body shall be devoured,

Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Job 18:14

He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth;

And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his:

Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Job 18:16

His roots shall be dried up beneath,

And above shall his branch be cut off.

Job 18:17

His remembrance shall perish from the earth,

And he shall have no name in the street.

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness,

And chased out of the world.

Job 18:19

He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people,

Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Job 18:20

They that come after shall be astonished at his day,

As they that went before were affrighted.

Job 18:21

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,

And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 18 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

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