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            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 2:11; 8:1</span></span><span class="content">Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">[Matt. 22:15; Mark 12:13; Luke 20:20]</span></span><span class="content">hunt for words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">Consider, and then we will speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Why are we counted as </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 73:22</span></span><span class="content">cattle?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">Why are we stupid in your sight?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You who </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 16:9 </span></span><span class="content">tear yourself in your anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">shall the earth be forsaken for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">or </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 14:18</span></span><span class="content">the rock be removed out of its place?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 21:17; Prov. 13:9; 20:20; 24:20; See Ps. 18:28</span></span><span class="content">the light of the wicked is put out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">and the flame of his fire does not shine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The light is </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 10:22</span></span><span class="content">dark in his tent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">and his lamp above him is put out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">His strong steps are shortened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">and his </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">[ch. 5:13]</span></span><span class="content">own schemes throw him down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For he is cast into a net by his own feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">and he walks on its mesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Ps. 140:5
        </span></span><span class="content">A trap seizes him by the heel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">a snare lays hold of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A rope is hidden for him in the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">a trap for him in the path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    ch. 15:21; 20:25; 27:20; 30:15; Jer. 6:25; 46:5; 49:29  </span></span><span class="content">Terrors frighten him on every side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">and chase him at his heels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His strength is famished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">and calamity is </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 38:17</span></span><span class="content">ready for his stumbling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It consumes the parts of his skin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Isa. 14:30
        </span></span><span class="content">the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He is torn from the tent in which he trusted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">and is brought to </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">[Rev. 9:11]</span></span><span class="content">the king of terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In his tent dwells that which is none of his;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    See Ps. 11:6; Ezek. 38:22  </span></span><span class="content">sulfur is scattered over his habitation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 29:19; Hos. 9:16 </span></span><span class="content">roots dry up beneath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">and his branches </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">ch. 14:2</span></span><span class="content">wither above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">His </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 34:16; Prov. 10:7; [Ps. 109:13, 15]</span></span><span class="content">memory perishes from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">and he has no name in the street.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    ch. 10:21, 22  </span></span><span class="content">He is thrust from light into darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">and driven out of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He has no </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Isa. 14:22</span></span><span class="content">posterity or progeny among his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">and no survivor where he used to live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They of the west are appalled at his </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 37:13; Jer. 50:27; Ezek. 21:25, 29; Obad. 12; [1 Sam. 26:10] </span></span><span class="content">day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">and </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">[ch. 21:6]</span></span><span class="content">horror seizes them of the east.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="content">such is the place of him who </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Judg. 2:10; Jer. 9:3; 10:25; 1 Thess. 4:8; 2 Thess. 1:8</span></span><span class="content">knows not God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

“How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we will speak.
Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
You who tear yourself in your anger,
shall the earth be forsaken for you,
or the rock be removed out of its place?

“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire does not shine.
The light is dark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.
His strong steps are shortened,
and his own schemes throw him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he walks on its mesh.
A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare lays hold of him.
A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him in the path.
Terrors frighten him on every side,
and chase him at his heels.
His strength is famished,
and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
It consumes the parts of his skin;
the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
and is brought to the king of terrors.
In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
His roots dry up beneath,
and his branches wither above.
His memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
He is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
He has no posterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
They of the west are appalled at his day,
and horror seizes them of the east.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who knows not God.”

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