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JOB 19
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My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
What if I go to the grave*
and make my bed in darkness?
What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
No, my hope will go down with me to
the grave.
We will rest together in the dust!”
Bildad’s Second Response to Job
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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long before you stop talking?
Speak sense if you want us to answer!
Do you think we are mere animals?
Do you think we are stupid?
You may tear out your hair in anger,
but will that destroy the earth?
Will it make the rocks tremble?
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Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad
Then Job spoke again:
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“Surely the light of the wicked will be
snuffed out.
The sparks of their fire will not glow.
The light in their tent will grow dark.
The lamp hanging above them will be
quenched.
The confident stride of the wicked will
be shortened.
Their own schemes will be their
downfall.
The wicked walk into a net.
They fall into a pit.
A trap grabs them by the heel.
A snare holds them tight.
A noose lies hidden on the ground.
A rope is stretched across their path.
“Terrors surround the wicked
and trouble them at every step.
Hunger depletes their strength,
and calamity waits for them to stumble.
Disease eats their skin;
death devours their limbs.
They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of
terrors.
The homes of the wicked will burn down;
burning sulfur rains on their houses.
Their roots will dry up,
and their branches will wither.
All memory of their existence will fade from
the earth;
no one will remember their names.
They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.
17:13 Hebrew to Sheol; also in 17:16.
city under siege.
19:6 Or for I am like a
They will have neither children nor
grandchildren,
nor any survivor in the place where
they lived.
People in the west are appalled at their
fate;
people in the east are horrified.
They will say, ‘This was the home of a
wicked person,
the place of one who rejected God.’”
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2 “How long will you torture me?
How long will you try to crush me with
your words?
You have already insulted me ten times.
You should be ashamed of treating me
so badly.
Even if I have sinned,
that is my concern, not yours.
You think you’re better than I am,
using my humiliation as evidence of
my sin.
But it is God who has wronged me,
capturing me in his net.*
“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
I protest, but there is no justice.
God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
He has demolished me on every side, and
I am finished.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
His fury burns against me;
he counts me as an enemy.
His troops advance.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.
“My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me.
My family is gone,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
My servants and maids consider me a
stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.
When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;
I have to plead with him!
My breath is repulsive to my wife.
I am rejected by my own family.
Even young children despise me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their
backs on me.
My close friends detest me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
I have been reduced to skin and bones
and have escaped death by the skin of
my teeth.