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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 18 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Job 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div 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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Bildad's Second Speech</h5><h3 class="s1">How Long Will You Talk?</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.1" class="v18_18_1">1</span>Bildad from Shuah<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.18.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> said:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.2" class="v18_18_2">2</span>How long will you talk?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_2">Be sensible! Let us speak.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.3" class="v18_18_3">3</span>Or do you think that we</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_3">are dumb animals?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.4" class="v18_18_4">4</span>You cut yourself in anger.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_4">Will that shake the earth</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_4">or even move the rocks?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_4">* </span><span class="v18_18_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.5" class="v18_18_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.18.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The lamps of sinful people</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_5">soon are snuffed out,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.6" class="v18_18_6">6</span>leaving their tents dark.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.7" class="v18_18_7">7</span>Their powerful legs become weak,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_7">and they stumble on schemes</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_7">of their own doing.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_7">* </span><span class="v18_18_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.8" class="v18_18_8">8</span>Before they know it,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.9" class="v18_18_9">9</span>they are trapped in a net,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.10" class="v18_18_10">10</span>hidden along the path.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.11" class="v18_18_11">11</span>Terror strikes and pursues</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_11">from every side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.12" class="v18_18_12">12</span>Starving, they run,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_12">only to meet disaster,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.13" class="v18_18_13">13</span>then afterwards to be eaten alive</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_13">by death itself.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.14" class="v18_18_14">14</span>Those sinners are dragged</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_14">from the safety of their tents</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_14">to die a gruesome death.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.15" class="v18_18_15">15</span>Then their tents and possessions</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_15">are burned to ashes,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.16" class="v18_18_16">16</span>and they are left like trees,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_16">dried up from the roots.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.17" class="v18_18_17">17</span>They are gone and forgotten,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.18" class="v18_18_18">18</span>thrown far from the light</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_18">into a world of darkness,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.19" class="v18_18_19">19</span>without any children</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_19">to carry on their name.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.20" class="v18_18_20">20</span>Everyone, from east to west,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_20">is overwhelmed with horror.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.21" class="v18_18_21">21</span>Such is the fate of sinners</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_21">and their families</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_21">who don't know God.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Shuah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.11.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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