Job 18

Bildad

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
5 “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
8 His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13 It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 Fire resides[a] in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”

Cross References 54

  • 1. S Job 8:1
  • 2. S Job 8:2; S Job 16:3
  • 3. S Job 12:7
  • 4. Psalms 73:22
  • 5. Job 13:14
  • 6. S Job 16:9
  • 7. Job 14:18
  • 8. Job 21:17; Job 35:15; Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 24:20; Jeremiah 25:10; Matthew 25:8; John 8:12
  • 9. S Job 5:14; Job 12:25; Job 24:17; Job 38:15
  • 10. S Job 8:22
  • 11. S Job 5:14
  • 12. S Job 11:17; S Job 12:25
  • 13. S Job 13:26
  • 14. Psalms 18:36; Proverbs 4:12
  • 15. S Job 5:13
  • 16. S Job 15:6
  • 17. Job 19:6; Job 22:10; Psalms 9:15; Psalms 10:9; Psalms 35:7; Psalms 57:6; Psalms 66:11; Psalms 140:5; Lamentations 1:13; Micah 7:2; Habakkuk 1:15
  • 18. Job 22:10; Job 30:12; Isaiah 24:18; Jeremiah 48:44; Amos 5:19
  • 19. Proverbs 5:22
  • 20. Proverbs 7:22; Isaiah 51:20
  • 21. S 1 Samuel 28:9
  • 22. Psalms 140:5
  • 23. ver 14; S Job 6:4; Job 20:25; Job 24:17; Psalms 55:4; Psalms 88:15; Isaiah 28:19; Jeremiah 15:8; Lamentations 2:22
  • 24. S Job 15:21; Psalms 31:13; Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3
  • 25. ver 18; Job 20:8; Isaiah 22:18
  • 26. Job 21:17
  • 27. Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 65:13
  • 28. Job 31:3
  • 29. Job 15:23
  • 30. Numbers 12:12
  • 31. Zechariah 14:12
  • 32. S Job 8:22
  • 33. Job 15:24
  • 34. S ver 11
  • 35. ver 18; Job 20:26
  • 36. S Genesis 19:24; Psalms 11:6
  • 37. Isaiah 5:24; Hosea 5:12; Hosea 9:1-16; Amos 2:9
  • 38. S Genesis 27:28; S Job 8:12; S Job 15:30; Malachi 4:1
  • 39. S Deuteronomy 32:26
  • 40. Deuteronomy 9:14; Psalms 9:5; Psalms 69:28; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 14:22
  • 41. Job 24:20; Psalms 34:16; Proverbs 2:22; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 49:15
  • 42. S Job 5:14
  • 43. S ver 11
  • 44. S Job 11:20; Job 30:8
  • 45. Psalms 37:28; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 14:20; Jeremiah 22:30
  • 46. Psalms 21:10; Psalms 109:13; Isaiah 14:22
  • 47. S 2 Kings 10:11; S Ezekiel 17:8
  • 48. Job 27:14-15
  • 49. Psalms 22:6-7; Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-3; Ezekiel 27:35
  • 50. Psalms 37:13; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:27,31; Ezekiel 7:7
  • 51. Job 21:28
  • 52. Isaiah 57:20
  • 53. S Job 7:10
  • 54. S Job 4:21; Jeremiah 9:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:5

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "Nothing he had remains"

Job 18 Commentaries

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