Job 18

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Bildad the Shuhite speaks to Job, asking how long Job will continue speaking and rebuking him for treating his companions like cattle. Bildad then describes the fate of the wicked person, stating that his lamp is extinguished, his stride shortened, and his own feet led into traps and nets. He continues by detailing how terrors frighten the wicked man, disease consumes his skin, and he is torn from his tent while fire and sulfur destroy his dwelling. Finally, Bildad explains that the wicked man's memory perishes from the earth, he leaves behind no offspring or survivors, and people from the west and east are left appalled and horrified by his ultimate fate.

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¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: ²“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk. ³Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight? ⁴You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place? ⁵Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. ⁶The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out. ⁷His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up. ⁸For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh. ⁹A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him. ¹⁰A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path. ¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step. ¹²His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side. ¹³It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs. ¹⁴He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors. ¹⁵Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling. ¹⁶The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away. ¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land. ¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world. ¹⁹He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived. ²⁰Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror. ²¹Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”