1 Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 When will your empty words end? Listen, and then we can talk.
3 Why do you regard us like beasts? Are we stupid in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself in your wrath, must the earth be lost on your account the rocks be moved out of their place?
5 Surely the evil man's lamp is snuffed out; his fire stops burning.
6 The light dims in his tent; the lamp shining on him goes out.
7 His vigorous steps weaken; his own schemes make him stumble.
8 His feet take him to a net or lead him into a pitfall.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
10 Hidden in the ground is a noose for him; pitfalls await him along the way.
11 Terrors assail him on every side; they harry him at every step.
12 Hungering among his goods, doom awaits him if he falls.
13 Sickness eats his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
14 Torn from the security of his tent, he is marched off to the king of terror.
15 His tent is no longer his: take it! Brimstone is scattered over his field.
16 Dried up below are his roots; withered above are his branches.
17 His memory perishes in the land, his name is forgotten on the earth.
18 From light he is driven into darkness; he is banished from the world.
19 He has no descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20 All in the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with fright.
21 Such is the lot of the wicked; such is the place of one who knows not 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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