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Job 18

The Message Bible MSG

1 Bildad from Shuhah chimed in:

2 "How monotonous these word games are getting! Get serious! We need to get down to business.

3 Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals? You look down on us as if we don't know anything.

4 Why are you working yourself up like this? Do you want the world redesigned to suit you? Should reality be suspended to accommodate you?

5 "Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished.

6 Their house goes dark - every lamp in the place goes out.

7 Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps.

8 They get all tangled up in their own red tape,

9 Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose.

10 They trip on ropes they've hidden, and fall into pits they've dug themselves.

11 Terrors come at them from all sides. They run helter-skelter.

12 The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper,

13 To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death.

14 They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house.

15 Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins.

16 Their roots rot and their branches wither.

17 They'll never again be remembered - nameless in unmarked graves.

18 They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world.

19 And they leave empty-handed - not one single child - nothing to show for their life on this earth.

20 Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified:

21 'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!'"

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

5 “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

6 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

7 His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.

10 A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

11 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

12 His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

13 It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.

15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

16 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

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

19 He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

20 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God. ”