7.
Bildad's rebuke and warning
18:1-21
Job 18
:1
18:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Job 18
:2
18:2
How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and afterward we will speak.
Job 18
:3
18:3
Why are we considered
to be like beasts
And have become unclean in your eyes?
Job 18
:4
18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger,
Will the earth be forsaken for your sake,
Or will the rock be removed from its place?
Job 18
:5
18:5
Indeed the light of the wicked goes out,
And the flame of his fire does not shine.
Job 18
:6
18:6
The light is darkness in his tent,
And his lamp above him goes out.
Job 18
:7
18:7
The steps of his strength are confined,
And his counsel has cast him down.
Job 18
:8
18:8
For he has been cast into a net by his own feet,
And he walks about on the webbing of a pitfall.
Job 18
:9
18:9
A snare grabs
him by the heel;
A trap lays hold on him.
Job 18
:10
18:10
A rope is hidden for him on the ground,
And a trap for him, on the path.
Job 18
:11
18:11
Terrors frighten him all around
And chase him at his heels.
Job 18
:12
18:12
His strength is famished,
And calamity is prepared at his side.
Job 18
:13
18:13
It devours the members of his body;
The firstborn of death devours his members.
Job 18
:14
18:14
He is rooted out of his tent, in which he trusts;
And he is made to march to the king of terrors.
Job 18
:15
18:15
That which is not his dwells in his tent;
Brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
Job 18
:16
18:16
Beneath, his roots are dried up;
And above, his branch is withered.
Job 18
:17
18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name on the open plain.
Job 18
:18
18:18
He is thrust out from the light to the darkness
And driven from the world.
Job 18
:19
18:19
He has
ano posterity and no progeny among his people,
And there are none remaining where he sojourned.
Job 18
:20
18:20
Those who come after will be astonished at his day,
As those who went before were horrified.
Job 18
:21
18:21
Surely these are the dwellings of the unjust,
And this is the place of him who does not
aknow God.
