nsb - Job:18

nsb@Job:18:1 @ BILDAD THE SHUHITE ANSWERED:

nsb@Job:18:2 @ »When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.

nsb@Job:18:3 @ »Why are we regarded as animals and considered stupid in your sight?

nsb@Job:18:4 @ »You tear yourself to pieces in your anger! Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

nsb@Job:18:5 @ »The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire shall not shine.

nsb@Job:18:6 @ »The light in his tent becomes dark. The lamp beside him will be put out.

nsb@Job:18:7 @ »The vigor of his step is weakened. His own schemes will bring his downfall.

nsb@Job:18:8 @ »His feet cast him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.

nsb@Job:18:9 @ »A trap seizes him by the heel and a snare holds him fast.

nsb@Job:18:10 @ »A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap lies in his path.

nsb@Job:18:11 @ »Terrors startle him on every side and chase him at his heels.

nsb@Job:18:12 @ »Calamity hungers for him and disaster catch him when he falls.

nsb@Job:18:13 @ »It eats away parts of his skin. Deaths firstborn devours his limbs.

nsb@Job:18:14 @ »He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

nsb@Job:18:15 @ »Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

nsb@Job:18:16 @ »His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.

nsb@Job:18:17 @ »The memory of him perishes from the earth. He has no name in the street.

nsb@Job:18:18 @ »He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

nsb@Job:18:19 @ »He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

nsb@Job:18:20 @ »Men of the west are appalled at him. Men of the east are seized with horror.

nsb@Job:18:21 @ »This is the dwelling of an evil man! This is the place of one who does not know God!«