Testaments

Job - Chapter 18 - King James Version

  1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
  2. How longwill it be ereye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
  3. Wherefore are we counted as beasts,andreputed vile in your sight?
  4. He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
  5. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
  6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  7. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
  8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
  9. The gin shall takehimby the heel,andthe robber shall prevail against him.
  10. The snareislaid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
  11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
  12. His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destructionshall beready at his side.
  13. It shall devour the strength of his skin:eventhe firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
  14. His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  15. It shall dwell in his tabernacle, becauseit isnone of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
  16. His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
  17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
  18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  19. He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  20. They that come afterhimshall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
  21. Surely sucharethe dwellings of the wicked, and thisisthe placeof him thatknoweth not God.