LEB JOB Chapter 18

Bildad’s Second Speech

18 Then[fn] Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

• 2 “ How long[fn] will you[fn] hunt for words ?[fn]
• Consider,[fn] and afterward we shall speak.
• 3 Why are we considered as animals?
• Why are we taken as[fn] stupid in your[fn] eyes?
• 4 “You who are tearing yourself[fn] in your[fn] anger,
• will the earth be forsaken because of you?[fn]
• Or[fn] will the rock be removed from its place?
• 5 Furthermore,[fn] the light of the wicked is put out,
• and the flame of his fire will not shine.
• 6 The light becomes dark in his tent,
• and his lamp above him is put out.
• 7 “ His strong steps[fn] are shortened,
• and his own schemes[fn] throw him down,
• 8 for he is thrust into a net by his feet,
• and he walks into a pitfall.
• 9 A trap seizes him by the heel;
• a snare takes hold of him.
• 10 His rope is hidden in the ground,
• and his trap on the path.
• 11 “Sudden terrors terrify him all around,
• and they chase him at his heels.
• 12 His wealth will become hunger,
• and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
• 13 It consumes parts of his skin;
• the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
• 14 He is torn from his tent in which he trusted ,[fn]
• and it brought him to the king of terrors.
• 15 “ Nothing[fn] remains for him in his tent;
• sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
• 16 His roots dry up below ,[fn]
• and its branches[fn] wither away above.[fn]
• 17 His remembrance perishes from the earth,
• and there is not a name for him on the street.
• 18 “They thrust him from light into darkness,
• and they drive him out from the world.
• 19 There is no offspring for him nor[fn] a descendant among his people,
• and there is not a survivor in his abode.
• 20 Those of the west are appalled over his fate ,[fn]
• and those of the east are seized with horror .[fn]
• 21 Surely these are the dwellings of the godless,
• and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.”