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Job 18

Darby Translation (DARBY) - 1890

21 verses - Very literal - Public Domain

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Job 18:1

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Job 18:2

How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?

Job 18:4

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

Job 18:6

The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Job 18:8

For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

Job 18:9

The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;

Job 18:1

A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

Job 18:11

Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.

Job 18:12

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

Job 18:14

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

Job 18:15

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

Job 18:16

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

Job 18:17

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 18:19

He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

Job 18:2

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.

Job 18:21

Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.

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