| Chapter 18 |
1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
2 | How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. |
3 | Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? |
4 | He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place? |
5 | Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. |
6 | The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. |
7 | The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. |
8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. |
9 | The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. |
10 | The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. |
11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. |
12 | His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. |
13 | It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength. |
14 | His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. |
15 | It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. |
16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. |
17 | His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. |
18 | He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. |
19 | He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. |
20 | They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. |
21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |