1.8 KiB
Bildad's Second Response to Job
Chapter 18
-
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
-
"How long before you stop talking?
Speak sense if you want us to answer!
- Do you think we are mere animals?
Do you think we are stupid?
- You may tear out your hair in anger,
but will that destroy the earth?
Will it make the rocks tremble?
- "Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
The sparks of their fire will not glow.
- The light in their tent will grow dark.
The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
- The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened.
Their own schemes will be their downfall.
- The wicked walk into a net.
They fall into a pit.
- A trap grabs them by the heel.
A snare holds them tight.
- A noose lies hidden on the ground.
A rope is stretched across their path.
- "Terrors surround the wicked
and trouble them at every step.
- Hunger depletes their strength,
and calamity waits for them to stumble.
- Disease eats their skin;
death devours their limbs.
- They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of terrors.
- The homes of the wicked will burn down;
burning sulfur rains on their houses.
- Their roots will dry up,
and their branches will wither.
- All memory of their existence will fade from the earth;
no one will remember their names.
- They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.
- They will have neither children nor grandchildren,
nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
- People in the west are appalled at their fate;
people in the east are horrified.
- They will say, 'This was the home of a wicked person,
the place of one who rejected God.'"