Job 18 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Bildad’s Second Response to Job

Job 18:1

Job 18:1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 18:2

Job 18:2“How long before you stop talking?
Speak sense if you want us to answer!

Job 18:3

Job 18:3Do you think we are mere animals?
Do you think we are stupid?

Job 18:4

Job 18:4You may tear out your hair in anger,
but will that destroy the earth?
Will it make the rocks tremble?

Job 18:5

Job 18:5“Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
The sparks of their fire will not glow.

Job 18:6

Job 18:6The light in their tent will grow dark.
The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.

Job 18:7

Job 18:7The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened.
Their own schemes will be their downfall.

Job 18:8

Job 18:8The wicked walk into a net.
They fall into a pit.

Job 18:9

Job 18:9A trap grabs them by the heel.
A snare holds them tight.

Job 18:10

Job 18:10A noose lies hidden on the ground.
A rope is stretched across their path.

Job 18:11

Job 18:11“Terrors surround the wicked
and trouble them at every step.

Job 18:12

Job 18:12Hunger depletes their strength,
and calamity waits for them to stumble.

Job 18:13

Job 18:13Disease eats their skin;
death devours their limbs.

Job 18:14

Job 18:14They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Job 18:15The homes of the wicked will burn down;
burning sulfur rains on their houses.

Job 18:16

Job 18:16Their roots will dry up,
and their branches will wither.

Job 18:17

Job 18:17All memory of their existence will fade from the earth,
no one will remember their names.

Job 18:18

Job 18:18They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.

Job 18:19

Job 18:19They will have neither children nor grandchildren,
nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

Job 18:20

Job 18:20People in the west are appalled at their fate;
people in the east are horrified.

Job 18:21

Job 18:21They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person,
the place of one who rejected God.’”

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