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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!'"

New Living Translation NLT

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 “How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!

3 Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?

4 You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?

5 “Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.

6 The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.

7 The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.

8 The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.

9 A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.

10 A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.

11 “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.

12 Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.

13 Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.

14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.

15 The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.

16 Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.

17 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.

18 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.

19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

20 People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.

21 They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”