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id="topheading"><a href="../job/17.htm" title="Job 17">◄</a> Job 18 <a href="../job/19.htm" title="Job 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/job/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Bildad Speaks Again</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bildad from Shuah replied, saying:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“When are you going to stop your word hunt?</p> <p class="poetry2">Think first, and then we can talk.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Why do you think we’re like dumb animals?</p> <p class="poetry2">Do you think we’re stupid?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You’re tearing yourself to pieces in your anger.</p> <p class="poetry2">Will the land be abandoned because of you,</p> <p class="poetry2">or the rock be moved from its place?”</p> <p class="heading">The Wicked are Trapped</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished;</p> <p class="poetry2">the flame from his fire doesn’t shine.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Light in his tent is dark,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his lamp goes out above him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>His strong steps are restricted,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his own advice trips him up.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet;</p> <p class="poetry2">he walked right into the network!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The trap seizes him by the heel;</p> <p class="poetry2">a snare tightens its hold on him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A rope lies hidden in the dirt;</p> <p class="poetry2">a trap lies<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:10 The Heb. lacks lies">a</a></span> waiting for him where he is walking.”</p> <p class="heading">The Wicked Perish without Descendants</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides;</p> <p class="poetry2">they chase at his heels.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He is starved for strength;</p> <p class="poetry2">and is ripe for a fall.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Something gnaws on his skin;</p> <p class="poetry2">a deadly disease<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:13 Lit. a firstborn of death">b</a></span> consumes his limbs.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Torn from the security of his home,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:14 Lit. tent">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">he is brought before the king of terrors.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“There’s nothing in his tent that belongs to him;</p> <p class="poetry2">sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His roots wither underneath,</p> <p class="poetry2">while his branches above are being cut off.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>No one remembers him anywhere in the land;</p> <p class="poetry2">no one names streets in his honor.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He is driven away from light to darkness,</p> <p class="poetry2">made to wander the landscape.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has no children or descendants within his own people;</p> <p class="poetry2">and no survivors where he once lived.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>People<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:20 The Heb. lacks people">d</a></span> who live west of him are appalled at his fate;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:20 Lit. at his day">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">those who live east of him are seized with terror.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this;</p> <p class="poetry2">and so are the homes of those who don’t know God.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 18:10 The Heb. lacks <i>lies</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 18:13 Lit. <i>a firstborn of death</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 18:14 Lit. <i>tent</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 18:20 The Heb. lacks <i>people</i><br /><span 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