1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:
2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
4 You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
5 Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?
6 Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
7 His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
8 For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.
9 His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.
10 A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.
11 Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.
12 Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.
13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.
15 Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.
16 Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.
18 He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
19 Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.
20 The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.
21 And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.
Versículos relacionados com Job, 18:
Job 18 presents the second discourse of Bildade, in which he continues to argue that Job's punishment is the result of his own sin. He describes the destruction that will come over the wicked and how their lives will be ruined. The verses below are related to the topics covered in Job 18:
Job 8:13: "Such are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the wicked will perish." Bildade believes that Job's situation is the result of his lack of memory of God and his wicked hope.
Proverbs 14:32: "In his evil the wicked is melted, but the righteous even in death have refuge." Bildade speaks of the destruction that will come upon the wicked, which will be overthrown in their evil.
Psalm 1:4-5: "The wicked are not so; they are, however, as the straw that the wind disperses. Therefore the wicked will not subsist in judgment, nor the sinners in the congregation of the righteous." Bildade describes the destruction that will come over the wicked and their inability to subsist in judgment.
Isaiah 8:22: "And they will look at the earth, and behold, anguish and darkness, and shadows of sadness; and shall be pushed into the darkness." Bildade speaks of the darkness that will come over the wicked and how they will be pushed to her.
Psalm 35:8: "Fall upon him the destruction he does not expect, and catch him the chain he hid, fall into the same destruction." Bildade talks about how destruction will come over the wicked in a way they do not expect and how they will fall into the same destruction they have prepared.
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