- 18Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said, 2How long will it be before you make an end of words? Mark and afterward we will speak. 3Why are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your sight? 4He tears himself in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for you? And shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7The steps of his strength shall be distressed, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet and he walks upon a snare. 9The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
- 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall drive him to his feet. 12His strength shall be famished, and destruction ready at his side. 13It shall devour the strength of his skin, even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
- 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19He shall neither have son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were frightened. 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not God.
- 19Then Job answered and said, 2How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times have you reproached me. You are not ashamed that you make yourselves strangers to me. 4And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach, 6know now that God has overthrown me and has encompassed me with his net.
- 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. 8He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. 9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. 10He has destroyed me on every side and I am gone, and my hope has he removed like a tree. 11He has also kindled his wrath against me and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies. 12His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
- 13He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me. 14My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15They that dwell in my house and my maids count me for a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. 16I called my servant and he gave me no answer. I entreated him with my mouth. 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s sake of my own body. 18Yea, young children despised me. I arose and they spoke against me. 19All my intimate friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. 20My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. 22Why do you persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- 23Oh that my words were now written. Oh that they were printed in a book, 24that they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever. 25For I know my redeemer lives and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 26And after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me.
- 28But you should say, Why do we persecute him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? 29Be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.
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