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Job 18 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Job 18:1

Job 18:1Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Job 18:2

Job 18:2How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

Job 18:3

Job 18:3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

Job 18:4

Job 18:4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Job 18:5

Job 18:5For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

Job 18:6

Job 18:6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

Job 18:7

Job 18:7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

Job 18:8

Job 18:8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

Job 18:9

Job 18:9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

Job 18:10

Job 18:10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

Job 18:11

Job 18:11He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

Job 18:12

Job 18:12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

Job 18:13

Job 18:13His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

Job 18:14

Job 18:14He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Job 18:15

Job 18:15In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

Job 18:16

Job 18:16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Job 18:17

Job 18:17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

Job 18:18

Job 18:18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 18:19

Job 18:19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

Job 18:20

Job 18:20At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

Job 18:21

Job 18:21Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
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