Job 18 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

Job 18:1Then Bildad the Shuhite [fn]responded,

Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.

Job 18:3“Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?

Job 18:4“O [fn]you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?

Job 18:5

Job 18:5“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
And the [fn]flame of his fire gives no light.

Job 18:6

Job 18:6“The light in his tent is darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.

Job 18:7

Job 18:7“His [fn]vigorous stride is shortened,
And his own scheme brings him down.

Job 18:8

Job 18:8“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.

Job 18:9

Job 18:9“A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.

Job 18:10

Job 18:10“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

Job 18:11

Job 18:11“All around terrors frighten him,
And harry him at every step.

Job 18:12

Job 18:12“His strength is famished,
And calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

Job 18:13“[fn]His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his [fn]limbs.

Job 18:14

Job 18:14“He is torn from [fn]the security of his tent,
And [fn]they march him before the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Job 18:15“[fn]There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.

Job 18:16

Job 18:16“His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.

Job 18:17

Job 18:17“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.

Job 18:18

Job 18:18“[fn]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

Job 18:19

Job 18:19“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

Job 18:20

Job 18:20“Those [fn]in the west are appalled at his [fn]fate,
And those [fn]in the east are seized with horror.

Job 18:21

Job 18:21“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(18:1)

Literally: answered and said

(18:4)

Literally: he...tears himself...his

(18:5)

Literally: spark

(18:7)

Literally: steps of his strength

(18:13)

Hebrew: It eats parts of his skin

(18:13)

Or, parts

(18:14)

Literally: his tent his trust

(18:14)

Or, you or she shall march

(18:15)

A suggested reading is Fire dwells in his tent

(18:18)

Literally: They drive him...And chase him

(18:20)

Literally: who come after

(18:20)

Literally: day

(18:20)

Literally: who have gone before

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Job 18 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

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