Job 18 :: New English Translation (NET)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

Job 18:1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Job 18:2"How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.

Job 18:3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

Job 18:4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

Job 18:5

Job 18:5"Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

Job 18:6

Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

Job 18:7

Job 18:7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

Job 18:8

Job 18:8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

Job 18:9

Job 18:9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

Job 18:10

Job 18:10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

Job 18:11

Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

Job 18:12

Job 18:12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

Job 18:13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

Job 18:14

Job 18:14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

Job 18:16

Job 18:16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

Job 18:17

Job 18:17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

Job 18:18

Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

Job 18:19

Job 18:19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

Job 18:20

Job 18:20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

Job 18:21

Job 18:21'Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'"

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Job 18 :: New English Translation (NET)

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

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