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Job 18 (NET)

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Job 18:1¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 2:11 Job 8:1 Job 25:1 Job 42:7-9

Job 18:2²“How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:5-6 Prov 18:13 Jas 1:19 Job 11:2 Job 16:2-3 Job 21:2 Job 3:17 Job 3:5-6 Job 33:1 Job 8:2

Job 18:3³Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 73:22 Job 17:10 Job 17:4 Eccl 3:18 Job 12:7-8 Rom 12:10

Job 18:4⁴You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 14:18 Job 16:9 Job 13:14 Job 5:2 Ezek 9:9 Isa 54:10 Job 40:8 Jonah 4:9 Luke 9:39 Mark 9:18

Job 18:5⁵“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 13:9 Prov 20:20 Prov 24:20 Job 21:17 Isa 50:11 Prov 4:19 Job 20:5

Job 18:6⁶The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 21:17 Ps 18:28 Rev 18:23

Job 18:7⁷His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 4:12 Ps 18:36 Ps 33:10 1 Cor 3:19 2 Sam 15:31 2 Sam 17:14 Hos 10:6 Job 15:6 Job 20:22 Job 36:16

Job 18:8⁸For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 9:15 Job 22:10 Ps 35:8 1 Tim 3:7 1 Tim 6:9 2 Tim 2:26 Esth 3:9 Esth 6:13 Esth 7:10 Esth 7:5

Job 18:9⁹A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 8:14-15 Job 1:15 Job 1:17 Job 5:5

Job 18:10¹⁰A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 12:13 Ps 11:6 Rom 11:9

Job 18:11¹¹Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:21 Jer 6:25 Jer 46:5 Jer 49:29 Job 20:25 Lev 26:36 2 Cor 5:11 2 Kgs 7:6-7 Jer 20:3-4 Job 20:8

Job 18:12¹²Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:36 1 Sam 2:5 1 Thess 5:3 2 Pet 2:3 Isa 8:21 Job 15:23-24 Ps 109:10 Ps 34:10 Ps 7:12-14

Job 18:13¹³It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 49:3 Isa 14:30 Job 17:16 Jonah 2:6 Rev 6:8 Zech 14:12

Job 18:14¹⁴He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 10:28 1 Cor 15:55-56 Heb 2:15 Job 11:20 Job 24:17 Job 41:34 Job 8:14 Job 8:22 Matt 7:26-27 Prov 14:32

Job 18:15¹⁵Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 11:6 Deut 29:23 Isa 34:9-10 Gen 19:24 Hab 2:6-11 Jer 22:13 Job 18:12-13 Job 20:18-21 Rev 19:20 Rev 21:8

Job 18:16¹⁶Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 9:16 Isa 5:24 Amos 2:9 Job 15:30 Mal 4:1 Job 29:19 Job 5:3-4

Job 18:17¹⁷His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 34:16 Prov 10:7 Ps 109:13 Prov 2:22 Job 13:12 Ps 83:4

Job 18:18¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:8 Job 10:22 Dan 4:33 Dan 5:21 Isa 17:13-14 Isa 8:21-22 Job 11:14 Job 3:20 Job 5:14 Jude 1:13

Job 18:19¹⁹He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 22:30 Isa 14:21-22 Isa 5:8-9 Job 1:19 Job 20:26-28 Job 27:14-15 Job 42:13-16 Job 8:4 Ps 109:13

Job 18:20²⁰People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:13 Ezek 21:25 Jer 50:27 1 Kgs 9:8 Deut 29:23-24 Jer 18:16 Job 19:13-19 Job 2:12-13 Luke 19:42 Luke 19:44

Job 18:21²¹‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:3 Titus 1:16 1 Thess 4:5 2 Thess 1:8 Jer 10:25 Judg 2:10 1 Sam 2:12 Exod 5:2 Job 21:14 Job 21:28

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