Job Capítulo 18

The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.

A Conservative Version

18 : 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

18 : 2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

18 : 3 Why are we counted as beasts, and have become unclean in your eyes?

18 : 4 Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

18 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

18 : 7 The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

18 : 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

18 : 9 A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.

18 : 10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

18 : 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

18 : 12 His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.

18 : 13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his body-parts.

18 : 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

18 : 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

18 : 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

18 : 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

18 : 20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

18 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.