Hiob 18 | New International Reader’s Version

The second speech of Bildad

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied, 2 ‘Job, when will you stop these speeches of yours? Be reasonable! Then we can talk. 3 Why do you look at us as if we were cattle? Why do you think of us as being stupid? 4 Your anger is tearing you to pieces. Does the earth have to be deserted just to prove you are right? Must all the rocks be moved from their places? 5 ‘The lamps of sinful people are blown out. Their flames will never burn again. 6 The lights in their tents become dark. The lamps beside those who are evil go out. 7 They walk more slowly than they used to. Their own evil plans make them fall. 8 Their feet take them into a net. They wander right into it. 9 A trap grabs hold of their heels. It refuses to let them go. 10 A trap lies in their path. A rope to catch them is hidden on the ground. 11 Terrors alarm them on every side. They follow them every step of the way. 12 Trouble would like to eat them up. Danger waits for them when they fall. 13 It eats away parts of their skin. Death itself feeds on their arms and legs. 14 They are torn away from the safety of their tents. They are marched off to the one who rules over death. 15 Fire races through their tents. Burning sulphur is scattered over their homes. 16 Their roots dry up under them. Their branches dry up above them. 17 No one on earth remembers them. Their names are forgotten in the land. 18 They are driven from light into the place of darkness. They are thrown out of the world. 19 Their family dies out among their people. No one is left where they used to live. 20 What has happened to them shocks the people in the west. It terrifies the people in the east. 21 Now you know what the homes of sinners are like. Those who don’t know God live in places like that.’

English Standard Version

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. 3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? 4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? 5 “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. 6 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. 7 His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. 9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. 10 A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path. 11 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels. 12 His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. 13 It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. 14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors. 15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation. 16 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. 18 He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world. 19 He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live. 20 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.”

Hiob 18 | New International Reader’s Version English Standard Version

The second speech of Bildad

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked