1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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 "Yea, 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 a pitfall.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
10 A rope is hid 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 hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
13 By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born 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; brimstone is scattered upon 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 offspring or descendant 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 ungodly, such is the place of him 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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