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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“How long will you hunt for words?</span><br /><span class="indent">Consider, and then we will speak.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why are we counted as cattle?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why are we stupid in your sight?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You who tear yourself in your anger,</span><br /><span class="indent">shall the earth be forsaken for you,</span><br /><span class="indent">or the rock be removed out of its place?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">The light is dark in his tent,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his lamp above him is put out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His strong steps are shortened,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his own schemes throw him down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he is cast into a net by his own feet,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he walks on its mesh.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A trap seizes him by the heel;</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">A rope is hidden for him in the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent">a trap for him in the path.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Terrors frighten him on every side,</span><br /><span class="indent">and chase him at his heels.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His strength is famished,</span><br /><span class="indent">and calamity is ready for his stumbling.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It consumes the parts of his skin;</span><br /><span class="indent">the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He is torn from the tent in which he trusted</span><br /><span class="indent">and is brought to the king of terrors.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In his tent dwells that which is none of his;</span><br /><span class="indent">sulfur is scattered over his habitation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His roots dry up beneath,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his branches wither above.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His memory perishes from the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he has no name in the street.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He is thrust from light into darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and driven out of the world.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has no posterity or progeny among his people,</span><br /><span class="indent">and no survivor where he used to live.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They of the west are appalled at his day,</span><br /><span class="indent">and horror seizes them of the east.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,</span><br /><span class="indent">such is the place of him who knows not God.”</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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