Bildad Speaks of the Wicked
18 Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,
2 “How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding, and then we can talk.
3 Why are we (A)regarded as animals,
As stupid in your eyes?
4 You who tear yourself in your anger—
Should the earth be abandoned for your sake,
Or the rock moved from its place?
5 “Indeed, the (B)light of the wicked goes out,
And the spark from his fire does not shine.
6 The light in his tent is (C)darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
7 His vigorous stride is shortened,
And his (D)own plan brings him down.
8 For he is (E)thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
9 A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
10 A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the pathway.
11 All around (F)sudden terrors frighten him,
And (G)harass him at every step.
12 His strength is (H)famished,
And disaster is ready at his side.
13 It devours parts of his skin,
The firstborn of death (I)devours his limbs.
14 He is (J)torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of (K)terrors.
15 Nothing of his dwells in his tent;
(L)Brimstone is scattered on his home.
16 His (M)roots are dried below,
And his (N)branch withers above.
17 (O)The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
18 He is driven from light (P)into darkness,
And (Q)chased from the inhabited world.
19 He has no (R)offspring or descendants among his people,
Nor any survivor where he resided.
20 Those in the west are appalled at (S)his fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.
21 Certainly these are the (T)dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
Footnotes
- Job 18:4
- Job 18:7
- Job 18:13
- Job 18:13
- Job 18:14
- Job 18:14
- Job 18:15
- Job 18:18
- Job 18:20
Cross references
- Job 18:3 : Ps 73:22
- Job 18:5 : Job 21:17; Prov 13:9; 20:20; 24:20
- Job 18:6 : Job 12:25
- Job 18:7 : Job 15:6
- Job 18:8 : Job 22:10; Ps 9:15; 35:8; Is 24:17, 18
- Job 18:11 : Job 15:21
- Job 18:11 : Job 18:18; 20:8
- Job 18:12 : Is 8:21
- Job 18:13 : Zech 14:12
- Job 18:14 : Job 8:22; 18:6
- Job 18:14 : Job 15:21
- Job 18:15 : Ps 11:6
- Job 18:16 : Is 5:24; Hos 9:16; Amos 2:9; Mal 4:1
- Job 18:16 : Job 15:30, 32
- Job 18:17 : Job 24:20; Ps 34:16; Prov 10:7
- Job 18:18 : Job 5:14; Is 8:22
- Job 18:18 : Job 20:8; 27:21-23
- Job 18:19 : Job 27:14, 15; Is 14:22
- Job 18:20 : Ps 37:13; Jer 50:27; Obad 12
- Job 18:21 : Job 21:28
