18Job 18

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2Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.Select Job 18:2

3What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?Select Job 18:3

4You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?Select Job 18:4

5The light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.Select Job 18:5

6The lamp in their tents will be darkened.Select Job 18:6

7Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall—victims of their own advice.Select Job 18:7

8They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;Select Job 18:8

9a trap catches their heels and holds them.Select Job 18:9

10On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.Select Job 18:10

11All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.Select Job 18:11

12They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.Select Job 18:12

13A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.Select Job 18:13

14They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.Select Job 18:14

15Now anyone may live in their tents— after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!Select Job 18:15

16Their roots and branches are withered and dry.Select Job 18:16

17Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.Select Job 18:17

18They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.Select Job 18:18

19They have no descendants, no survivors.Select Job 18:19

20From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.Select Job 18:20

21That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.Select Job 18:21