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    Job · 21 verses

    Job 18

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    Bildad's wicked man is not simply killed: the firstborn of death eats his limbs, and he is marched off to the king of terrors.

    A quarrel over sensevv. 1–4

    Bildad begins by asking how long the speeches will continue, and whether Job might show some sense before they talk. He objects to being treated as cattle, then turns Job's anger into a question about the very furniture of creation: should the earth be forsaken for one man's sake, or the rocks moved from their place?

    The wicked man's astonishing itineraryvv. 5–21

    Bildad then describes the wicked man's undoing in a remarkably well-stocked catalogue of traps. His lamp goes out, his feet find nets, a noose waits in the ground, terrors harry every step, and calamity stands ready at his side. The punishment grows grander as it proceeds: skin is devoured by the firstborn of death, the man is marched from his tent to the king of terrors, fire and burning sulfur occupy his dwelling, and his roots and branches wither. His name disappears, yet the west is appalled and the east trembles; the final picture is a dwelling and a place belonging to the wicked man who does not know God.

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    1. Job 18:1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

    2. Job 18:2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

    3. Job 18:3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

    4. Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

    5. Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

    6. Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

    7. Job 18:7His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

    8. Job 18:8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

    9. Job 18:9A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

    10. Job 18:10A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

    11. Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

    12. Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

    13. Job 18:13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

    14. Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

    15. Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

    16. Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

    17. Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

    18. Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

    19. Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

    20. Job 18:20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

    21. Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 5Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
    • 5Proverbs 24:20For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
    • 5Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
    • 16Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
    • 17Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
    • 3Psalms 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
    • 11Job 15:21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
    • 17Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
    • 20Psalms 37:13but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
    • 5Job 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
    • 8Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
    • 11Jeremiah 6:25Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
    • 15Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
    • 16Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
    • 17Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
    • 18Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

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