Job 18

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 8:1 · Job 25:1 · Job 42:7

2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.Cross-references: Job 3:5 · Job 3:17 · Job 8:2 · Job 11:2 · Job 13:5 · Job 16:2 · +4 more

3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?Cross-references: Job 12:7 · Job 17:4 · Job 17:10 · Ps 73:22 · Eccl 3:18 · Rom 12:10

4You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?Cross-references: Job 5:2 · Job 13:14 · Job 14:18 · Job 16:9 · Job 40:8 · Isa 54:10 · +5 more

5“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.Cross-references: Job 20:5 · Job 21:17 · Prov 4:19 · Prov 13:9 · Prov 20:20 · Prov 24:20 · +1 more

6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.Cross-references: Job 21:17 · Ps 18:28 · Rev 18:23

7The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · Job 5:12 · Job 15:6 · Job 20:22 · Job 36:16 · +6 more

8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.Cross-references: Esth 3:9 · Esth 6:13 · Esth 7:5 · Esth 7:10 · Job 22:10 · Ps 9:15 · +7 more

9A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.Cross-references: Job 1:15 · Job 1:17 · Job 5:5 · Isa 8:14

10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.Cross-references: Ps 11:6 · Ezek 12:13 · Rom 11:9

11Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · 2Ki 7:6 · Job 6:4 · Job 15:21 · Job 20:8 · Job 20:25 · +9 more

12His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:5 · 1Sam 2:36 · Job 15:23 · Ps 7:12 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 109:10 · +3 more

13The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.Cross-references: Gen 49:3 · Job 17:16 · Isa 14:30 · Jonah 2:6 · Zech 14:12 · Rev 6:8

14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.Cross-references: Job 8:14 · Job 8:22 · Job 11:20 · Job 24:17 · Job 41:34 · Ps 55:4 · +6 more

15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Job 18:12 · Job 20:18 · Job 31:38 · Ps 11:6 · +6 more

16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.Cross-references: Job 5:3 · Job 15:30 · Job 29:19 · Isa 5:24 · Hos 9:16 · Amos 2:9 · +1 more

17His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.Cross-references: Job 13:12 · Ps 34:16 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 109:13 · Prov 2:22 · Prov 10:7

18He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Cross-references: Job 3:20 · Job 5:14 · Job 10:22 · Job 11:14 · Job 20:8 · Prov 14:32 · +5 more

19He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.Cross-references: Job 1:19 · Job 8:4 · Job 20:26 · Job 27:14 · Job 42:13 · Ps 109:13 · +3 more

20Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 9:8 · Job 2:12 · Job 19:13 · Ps 37:13 · Ps 137:7 · +6 more

21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Judg 2:10 · 1Sam 2:12 · 1Chr 28:9 · Job 21:14 · Job 21:28 · +7 more