18:1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and
said,
18:2 How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
18:3 For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
18:4 Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the
earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from
their foundations?
18:5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall
not go up.
18:6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall
be put out with him.
18:7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive
[him].
18:8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in
a net.
18:9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for
his destruction.
18:10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the
path.
18:11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about
him,
18:12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been
prepared for him.
18:13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his
beauty.
18:14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let
distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be
sown with brimstone.
18:16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away
from above.
18:17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be
publicly cast out.
18:18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
18:19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the
earth.
18:20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for
him, and wonder seized the first.
18:21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them
that know not the Lord. |
18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
18:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards
we will speak.
18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
18:4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his
fire shall not shine.
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put
out with him.
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel
shall cast him down.
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail
against him.
18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the
way.
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to
his feet.
18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at
his side.
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death
shall devour his strength.
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors.
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone
shall be scattered upon his habitation.
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut
off.
18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name
in the street.
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the
world.
18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
remaining in his dwellings.
18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that
went before were affrighted.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of
him that knoweth not God. |