Job 18 — BBE
18Verse 1Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,Verse 2How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.Verse 3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?Verse 4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?Verse 5For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.Verse 6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.Verse 7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.Verse 8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.Verse 9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.Verse 10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.Verse 11He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.Verse 12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.Verse 13His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.Verse 14He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.Verse 15In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.Verse 16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.Verse 17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.Verse 18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.Verse 19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.Verse 20At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.Verse 21Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.