Job 18 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say, Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 How long will ye set an end to words? Ye shall understand, and afterwards we will speak. “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
3 Wherefore were we reckoned as cattle, and were unclean in your eyes? Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
4 He rent his soul in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed from its place? You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? 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 Also the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine; “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
6 The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straightened, and his counsel shall cast him down. His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down. The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
8 For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
9 A snare shall lay hold upon the heel, the noose shall hold fast upon him. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10 His gin being hid in the earth, and his snare upon the beaten path. A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path. A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
11 Terrors made him afraid round about, and scattered him to his feet. Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12 His strength shall be hunger, and destruction being prepared at his side. His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13 It shall devour the bars of his skin: the first-born of death shall devour his bars. It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
14 His confidence shall be plucked out from his tent, and it shall drive him to the king of terrors. He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tent, from not to him: brimstone shall be scattered upon his dwelling. In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16 From underneath, his roots shall be dried up, and from above, his harvest shall be cut off. His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and not a name to him upon a face without. His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
18 They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe. He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world. He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
19 No offspring to him, and no progeny among his people, and not a survivor in his dwellings. He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20 Others were astonished at his day, and the ancient took hold on shuddering. They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east. People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
21 Also these the dwellings of evil, and this the place of him not knowing God. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.” Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”
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