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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/18.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Bildad: The Wicked Are Punished</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-18-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“How long <i>till</i> you put an end to words?</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-2">Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Why are we counted as beasts,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-3"><i>And</i> regarded as stupid in your sight?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span> who tear yourself in anger,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-4">Shall the earth be forsaken for you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-4">Or shall the rock be removed from its place?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“The light of the wicked indeed goes out,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-5">And the flame of his fire does not shine.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The light is dark in his tent,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-6">And his lamp beside him is put out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The steps of his strength are shortened,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-7">And his own counsel casts him down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For he is cast into a net by his own feet,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-8">And he walks into a snare.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The net takes <i>him</i> by the heel,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-9"><i>And</i> a snare lays hold of him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A noose <i>is</i> hidden for him on the ground,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-10">And a trap for him in the road.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Terrors frighten him on every side,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-11">And drive him to his feet.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His strength is starved,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-12">And destruction <i>is</i> ready at his side.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It devours patches of his skin;</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-13">The firstborn of death devours his <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>limbs.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-14">And they parade him before the king of terrors.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They dwell in his tent <i>who are</i> none of his;</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-15">Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His roots are dried out below,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-16">And his branch withers above.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The memory of him perishes from the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-17">And he has no name <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>among the renowned.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>He is driven from light into darkness,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-18">And chased out of the world.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has neither son nor posterity among his people,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-19">Nor any remaining in his dwellings.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Those <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>in the west are astonished at his day,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-20">As those <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>in the east are frightened.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Surely such <i>are</i> the dwellings of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="text Job-18-21">And this <i>is</i> the place <i>of him who</i> does not know God.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13281a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:4">Job 18:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>one who tears his soul</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13290b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:13">Job 18:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>parts</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13294c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:17">Job 18:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>before the outside,</i> i.e., the distinguished or famous</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13295d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:18">Job 18:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>They drive him</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13297e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:20">Job 18:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>who came after</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13297f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 18:20">Job 18:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>who have gone before</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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