1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said:
2 When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.
3 Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be neglected on your account (or the rock be moved out of its place)?
5 Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth.
6 The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out.
7 His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down.
8 For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him.
10 A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way.
11 On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step.
12 Disaster is ready at his side,
13 the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
14 Fiery destruction lodges in his tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked from the security of his tent;
15 over his abode brimstone is scattered.
16 Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither.
17 His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth.
18 He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world.
19 He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt.
20 They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror.
21 So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and 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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