Thematic Bible
Job 18:1 (show verse)
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Job 18:2 (show verse)
"{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.
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Job 18:3 (show verse)
Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
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Job 18:4 (show verse)
"[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 (show verse)
Furthermore, the light of [the] wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
Job 18:6 (show verse)
The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
Job 18:7 (show verse)
"{His strong steps} are shortened, and his [own] schemes throw him down,
Job 18:8 (show verse)
for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
Job 18:9 (show verse)
A trap seizes [him] by [the] heel; a snare takes hold of him.
Job 18:10 (show verse)
His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on [the] path.
Job 18:11 (show verse)
"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.
Job 18:12 (show verse)
His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
Job 18:13 (show verse)
It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
Job 18:14 (show verse)
He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors.
Job 18:15 (show verse)
"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
Job 18:16 (show verse)
His roots dry up {below}, and its branches wither away above.
Job 18:17 (show verse)
His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.
Job 18:18 (show verse)
"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.
Job 18:19 (show verse)
[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.
Job 18:20 (show verse)
[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.
Job 18:21 (show verse)
Surely these [are] the dwellings of [the] godless, and this [is] the dwelling place of him [who] knows not God."