Job

Job 18 ©

1 Bildad reproveth Job of presumption and impatience: 5 he enlargeth on the inevitable calamities of the wicked.

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THEN answered aBildad the Shuhite, and said,

a ch. 2.11.
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How long will it be ere ye bmake an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

b ch. 11.2,3; 32.3,5; 13.5,6.
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Wherefore are we counted cas beasts, and reputed *vile in your sight?

c ch. 12.7; 17.4,10. Ps. 73.22. Ec. 3.18.
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He dteareth 1himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

d ch. 13.14; 16.9; 17.1,11,16.
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Yea, ethe light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

e Pr. 13.9; 20.20; 24.20. ch. 20.5. Mat. 25.29. Zec. 11.17.
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The flight shall be dark in his *tabernacle, and his 2candle shall be put out with him.

f 1Ki. 13.5. Re. 18.23. ch. 21.17. Mat. 6.23.
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The gsteps of his strength shall be *straitened, and his hown counsel shall cast him down.

g Pr. 4.12. ch. 20.22.
h ch. 5.12,13. Es. 3.9. Pr. 1.30-32.
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For ihe is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

i Pr. 5.22; 29.6. ch. 22.10. 1Ti. 6.9,10. Ps. 9.15.
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The j*gin shall take him by the heel, and kthe robber shall prevail against him.

j Eze. 12.13; 32.3. Ps. 11.6. Is. 8.14,15. 2Ti. 2.26.
k ch. 5.5; 1.15,17.
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The snare is 3laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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lTerrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall 4drive him to his feet.

l ch. 6.4; 7.14; 9.28; 15.21; 20.25. Je. 6.25; 20.3,4; 46.5; 49.29; 4.19,20.
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His strength shall be mhungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

m ch. 15.23,24. 1Sa. 2.5,36. Pr. 1.27. Ps. 7.12-14; 73.18-20. 1Th. 5.3.
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It shall devour the 5strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

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nHis confidence shall be rooted out of his *tabernacle, and it shall bring him to othe king of terrors.

n ch. 8.14; 11.20. Ps. 52.5; 112.10. Pr. 10.28. Mat. 7.26,27.
o Re. 9.11.
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pIt shall dwell in his *tabernacle, because it is none of his: q*brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

p v.12. ch. 20.19,26,28. Pr. 3.33. Zec. 5.4. Je. 9.21.
q Ge. 19.24. Ps. 11.6. Is. 13.19; 24.9. De. 29.23.
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His rroots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

r ch. 29.19. Is. 5.24. Jude 12. Ps. 37.35,36. Je. 12.2. Ho. 9.16. Mal. 4.1.
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sHis remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

s Pr. 10.7. Ps. 109.13; 83.4; 9.5,6; 49.11; 34.16. Ec. 8.10; 9.5.
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t6He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

t v.14. Pr. 14.32. Lu. 12.20. ch. 10.21,22; 20.8,9.
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uHe shall neither have son nor *nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

u Je. 22.30. Is. 14.22.
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They that come after him shall be v*astonied at his wday, as they that 7went before 8were *affrighted.

v De. 29.24. 1Ki. 9.8.
w Ps. 37.13; 137.7. Eze. 21.25. Ob. 12. ch. 1.13-19.
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Surely xsuch are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that yknoweth not God.

x v.6,14-16.
y Ex. 5.2. Ju. 2.10. 1Sa. 2.12. ch. 21.14. Ps. 79.6. 2Th. 1.8. Tit. 1.16.