18Job 18

CHAP. XVIII. / 1 Bildad reproueth Iob of presumption and impatiencie. 5 The calamities of the wicked.

1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,Select Job 18:1

2How long will it bee, ere you make an ende of words? Marke, and afterwards we will speake.Select Job 18:2

3Wherefore are wee counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?Select Job 18:3

4He teareth himselfe in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rocke bee remooued out of his place?Select Job 18:4

5Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.Select Job 18:5

6The light shalbe darke in his tabernacle, and his candle shalbe put out with him.Select Job 18:6

7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.Select Job 18:7

8For hee is cast into a net by his owne feete, & he walketh vpon a snare.Select Job 18:8

9The grinne shall take him by the heele, and the robber shall preuaile against him.Select Job 18:9

10The snare is laide for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.Select Job 18:10

11Terrours shall make him afraid on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.Select Job 18:11

12His strength shalbe hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.Select Job 18:12

13It shall deuoure the strength of his skinne: euen the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.Select Job 18:13

14His confidence shalbe rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrours.Select Job 18:14

15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.Select Job 18:15

16His rootes shall be dryed vp beneath: and aboue shall his branch be cut off.Select Job 18:16

17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and hee shall haue no name in the streete.Select Job 18:17

18He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.Select Job 18:18

19Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.Select Job 18:19

20They that come after him shalbe astonied at his day, as they that went before, were affrighted.Select Job 18:20

21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.Select Job 18:21