WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE
Job 18:3
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
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Job 18 · Read in context
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
18:2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
18:3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
18:4You 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.
18:6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
18:7The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
18:9A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
18:10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
18:11Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
18:12His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
18:13The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
18:14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
18:15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
18:16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
18:17His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
18:18He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
18:19He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
18:20Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
