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

18:2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

18:3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

18:4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

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

18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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

18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

18:9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

18:10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

18:12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

18:13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

18:14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

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

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

18:19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

18:20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

19:1Then Job answered and said,

19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

19:9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

19:10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

19:12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

19:15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

19:16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

19:18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

19:24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

19:25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

19:26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

19:28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

19:29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

20:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

20:2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

20:4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

20:6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

20:9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

20:10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

20:19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

20:20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

20:21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

20:26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

20:27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.