Job 18 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Bildad: The Wicked Are Punished

Bildad Says the Wicked Are Punished

Job 18:1

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

Job 18:2

Job 18:2“How long till you put an end to words?
Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.

Job 18:3

Job 18:3Why are we counted as beasts,
And regarded as stupid in your sight?

Job 18:4

Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger,
Shall the earth be forsaken for you?
Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

Job 18:5

Job 18:5“The light of the wicked indeed goes out,
And the flame of his fire does not shine.

Job 18:6

Job 18:6The light is dark in his tent,
And his lamp beside him is put out.

Job 18:7

Job 18:7The steps of his strength are shortened,
And his own counsel casts him down.

Job 18:8

Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
And he walks into a snare.

Job 18:9

Job 18:9The net takes him by the heel,
And a snare lays hold of him.

Job 18:10

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

Job 18:11

Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side,
And drive him to his feet.

Job 18:12

Job 18:12His strength is starved,
And destruction is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

Job 18:13It devours patches of his skin;
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 18:14

Job 18:14He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent,
And they parade him before the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Job 18:15They dwell in his tent who are none of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.

Job 18:16

Job 18:16His roots are dried out below,
And his branch withers above.

Job 18:17

Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name among the renowned.[fn]

Job 18:18

Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.

Job 18:19

Job 18:19He has neither son nor posterity among his people,
Nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Job 18:20

Job 18:20Those in the west are astonished at his day,
As those in the east are frightened.

Job 18:21

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

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NKJV Footnotes

(18:17)

Literally before the outside, meaning distinguished, famous

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