Job 18: 1 - 19: 29
| 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, |
| 2“How long will you hunt for words? |
| Consider, and afterwards we will speak. |
| 3Why are we counted as animals, |
| which have become unclean in your sight? |
| 4You who tear yourself in your anger, |
| will the earth be forsaken for you? |
| Or will the rock be removed out of its place? |
| 5“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. |
| The spark of his fire won’t shine. |
| 6The light will be dark in his tent. |
| His lamp above him will be put out. |
| 7The steps of his strength will be shortened. |
| His own counsel will cast him down. |
| 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, |
| and he wanders into its mesh. |
| 9A snare will take him by the heel. |
| A trap will catch him. |
| 10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, |
| a trap for him on the path. |
| 11Terrors will make him afraid on every side, |
| and will chase him at his heels. |
| 12His strength will be famished. |
| Calamity will be ready at his side. |
| 13The members of his body will be devoured. |
| The firstborn of death will devour his members. |
| 14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. |
| He will be brought to the king of terrors. |
| 15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. |
| Sulphur will be scattered on his habitation. |
| 16His roots will be dried up beneath. |
| His branch will be cut off above. |
| 17His memory will perish from the earth. |
| He will have no name in the street. |
| 18He will be driven from light into darkness, |
| and chased out of the world. |
| 19He will have neither son nor grandson amongst his people, |
| nor any remaining where he lived. |
| 20Those who come after will be astonished at his day, |
| as those who went before were frightened. |
| 21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. |
| This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.” |
| 1Then Job answered, |
| 2“How long will you torment me, |
| and crush me with words? |
| 3You have reproached me ten times. |
| You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. |
| 4If it is true that I have erred, |
| my error remains with myself. |
| 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, |
| and plead against me my reproach, |
| 6know now that God has subverted me, |
| and has surrounded me with his net. |
| 7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. |
| I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, |
| and has set darkness in my paths. |
| 9He has stripped me of my glory, |
| and taken the crown from my head. |
| 10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. |
| He has plucked my hope up like a tree. |
| 11He has also kindled his wrath against me. |
| He counts me amongst his adversaries. |
| 12His troops come on together, |
| build a siege ramp against me, |
| and encamp around my tent. |
| 13“He has put my brothers far from me. |
| My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. |
| 14My relatives have gone away. |
| My familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| 15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. |
| I am an alien in their sight. |
| 16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. |
| I beg him with my mouth. |
| 17My breath is offensive to my wife. |
| I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. |
| 18Even young children despise me. |
| If I arise, they speak against me. |
| 19All my familiar friends abhor me. |
| They whom I loved have turned against me. |
| 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. |
| I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; |
| for the hand of God has touched me. |
| 22Why do you persecute me as God, |
| and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23“Oh that my words were now written! |
| Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 24That with an iron pen and lead |
| they were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. |
| In the end, he will stand upon the earth. |
| 26After my skin is destroyed, |
| then I will see God in my flesh, |
| 27whom I, even I, will see on my side. |
| My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. |
| “My heart is consumed within me. |
| 28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ |
| because the root of the matter is found in me, |
| 29be afraid of the sword, |
| for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, |
| that you may know there is a judgement.” |
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