Thematic Bible

Job 18:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Job 18:2

"{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 18:3

Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 18:4

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?
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Job 18:5

Furthermore, the light of [the] wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

Job 18:6

The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

Job 18:7

"{His strong steps} are shortened, and his [own] schemes throw him down,

Job 18:8

for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.

Job 18:9

A trap seizes [him] by [the] heel; a snare takes hold of him.

Job 18:10

His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on [the] path.

Job 18:11

"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.

Job 18:12

His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

Job 18:13

It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

Job 18:14

He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

Job 18:16

His roots dry up {below}, and its branches wither away above.

Job 18:17

His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

Job 18:18

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

Job 18:19

[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

Job 18:20

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

Job 18:21

Surely these [are] the dwellings of [the] godless, and this [is] the dwelling place of him [who] knows not God."