Job 18
Reading Job chapter 18 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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