Job 18:1 - 18:21 | ASV

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¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

²How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, `And' are become unclean in your sight?

⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

⁹A gin shall take `him' by the heel, `And' a snare shall lay hold on him.

¹⁰A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

¹²His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

¹³The members of his body shall be devoured, `Yea', the first-born of death shall devour his members.

¹⁴He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

¹⁹He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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