Job
18
- Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- "When will you end these speeches?
Be sensible, and then we can talk.
- Why are we regarded as cattle and considered
stupid in your sight ?
- You who tear yourself to pieces in your
anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved
from their place ?
- "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed
out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
- The light in his tent becomes dark; the
lamp beside him goes out.
- The vigor of his step is weakened; his own
schemes throw him down.
- His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders
into its mesh.
- A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds
him fast.
- A noose is hidden for him on the ground;
a trap lies in his path.
- Terrors startle him on every side and dog
his every step.
- Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is
ready for him when he falls.
- It eats away parts of his skin; death's
firstborn devours his limbs.
- He is torn from the security of his tent
and marched off to the king of terrors.
- Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur
is scattered over his dwelling.
- His roots dry up below and his branches
wither above.
- The memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name in the land.
- He is driven from light into darkness and
is banished from the world.
- He has no offspring or descendants among
his people, no survivor where once he lived.
- Men of the west are appalled at his fate;
men of the east are seized with horror.
- Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who knows not God."
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