Job 18 (NET)

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Job 18:1¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:2²“How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:3³Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:4⁴You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:5⁵“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:6⁶The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:7⁷His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:8⁸For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:9⁹A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:10¹⁰A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:11¹¹Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:12¹²Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:13¹³It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:14¹⁴He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:15¹⁵Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:16¹⁶Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:17¹⁷His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:18¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:19¹⁹He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:20²⁰People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 18:21²¹‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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