Job / Bildad's Description of the Wicked's Doom

Bildad's Description of the Wicked's Doom

Job 18:1-21

Chapter 18

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: ² How long will you put an end to words? Think about it, and afterward we will speak. ³ Why are we counted as beasts and stupid in your eyes? ⁴ He tears his soul in his anger. For your sake, will you abandon the earth and dislodge Rock from its place? ⁵ Indeed, the light of the wicked will go out, and the flame of his fire will not shine. ⁶ Light darkens in his tent, and his lamp above him goes out. ⁷ His steps are narrowed, the steps of his strength, and his own counsel throws him down. ⁸ For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare. ⁹ A trap will seize him by the heel; it will strengthen snares upon him. ¹⁰ His cord is hidden in the earth, and its trap awaits him on his path. ¹¹ Terrors surround him at that time and scatter him to his feet. ¹² His hunger will be at his side, and calamity is prepared for his side. ¹³ It will eat the bars of his skin; the firstborn of Death will eat his skin. ¹⁴ He will be torn from his tent, his trust, and it will march him to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ It will dwell in his tent—Bel to him; sulfur will be scattered over his pasture. ¹⁶ From below his roots dry up, and from above his harvest withers. ¹⁷ His memory perishes from the land, and there is no name for him upon the face of the earth. ¹⁸ He will thrust him from light into darkness, and banish him from the inhabited world. ¹⁹ He has no grandson or offspring among his people, and there is no survivor or remnant in his dwelling place. ²⁰ On his day the later ones gasped, and the former ones seized the gate. ²¹ Surely these are the dwellings of injustice, and this is the place God does not know.