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Job
Chapter
18
{Chapters
15-21: The Second Debate}
{Chapters
18-19: Second Debate with Self-righteous Bildad Arrogantly Continues
with 'Job is Getting What He Deserves'}
1-2~~Then
Bildad the Shuhite replied and said, 2~~
"When
will you end these speeches?
Be
sensible and then we can talk.
3~~Why
are we regarded as cattle
and
considered stupid in your sight?
{cattle follow each other and Bildad got it that Job is saying they
have the facts wrong}
4~~You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger.
Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?
Or
must the mountains get up
and
move away because you are angry?
{means 'do you think you can change the world because you are
angry'}
{Verse
5-21:Bildad's Description of Punitive Suffering}
5~~The
lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
{meaning 'Job you are going to die'}
The flame of his fire stops burning.
6~~The light in his tent {the soul in your body} becomes dark.
And the lamp beside him shall be put out.
7~~The vigor of his steps is weakened.
His own schemes throw him down.
8~~His
feet thrust him into a net
and
he wanders into its mesh.
9~~A trap seizes him by the heel.
A snare holds him fast.
10~~A noose is hidden for him on the ground.
A trap lies in his path.
11~~Terrors startle him on every side, and dogs his every step.
12~~Calamity is hungry for him.
Disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13~~It eats away parts of his skin.
Death's firstborn devours his limps.
14~~He
is torn from the security of his tent
and
marched off to the king of terrors.
15~~It {fire} resides in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16~~His roots dry up below, and his branches wither above.
17~~The memory of him perishs from the earth.
He has no name in the land.
18~~He is driven from light into darkness,
and banished from the world.
19~~He has no offspring or descendents among the people.
No
survivors where he once lived.
{now this reversionist is laughing at Job because his children are all
dead - cruilty}.
20~~Men of the west are appalled at his fate.
Men of the east are seized with horror.
21~~Surely
such is the dwellings of an evil man
{meaning Bildad is saying 'Job YOU are the evil man'}
Such is the place of one who does not even know God/'El."
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