Job Chapter 18
From The Open Bible Project
18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
18:2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
18:3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
- (c) That is, like a madman.
- (d) Shall God change the order of nature for your sake, by dealing with you otherwise than he does with all man?
18:5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
- (e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes his state: and this is his ordinary working for their sins.
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
- (f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.
18:9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
18:10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
18:12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
- (g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine.
18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
- (h) That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts.
18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
- (i) That is, with great fear.
18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
- (l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would destroy him and his.
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
18:17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.
18:19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
18:20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
- (n) When they will see what came to him.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
