Job 18

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,SelectedJob 18:1Ask

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.SelectedJob 18:2Ask

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?SelectedJob 18:3Ask

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?SelectedJob 18:4Ask

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.SelectedJob 18:5Ask

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.SelectedJob 18:6Ask

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.SelectedJob 18:7Ask

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.SelectedJob 18:8Ask

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.SelectedJob 18:9Ask

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.SelectedJob 18:10Ask

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.SelectedJob 18:11Ask

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.SelectedJob 18:12Ask

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.SelectedJob 18:13Ask

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.SelectedJob 18:14Ask

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.SelectedJob 18:15Ask

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.SelectedJob 18:16Ask

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.SelectedJob 18:17Ask

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.SelectedJob 18:18Ask

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.SelectedJob 18:19Ask

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.SelectedJob 18:20Ask

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.SelectedJob 18:21Ask

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