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Job 18:16

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

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Job 18 · Read in context

18:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

18:2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

18:3

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

18:4

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

18:5

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

18:6

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

18:7

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

18:9

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

18:10

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

18:11

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

18:12

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

18:13

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

18:14

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

18:15

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

18:16

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

18:17

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

18:18

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

18:19

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

18:20

Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

18:21

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

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Job 18:16 · LUMINVIA