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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 18
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1
KJV:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Geneva:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2
KJV:
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Geneva:
When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.
3
KJV:
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Geneva:
Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
4
KJV:
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Geneva:
Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?
5
KJV:
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Geneva:
Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
6
KJV:
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Geneva:
The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
7
KJV:
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Geneva:
The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
8
KJV:
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Geneva:
For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.
9
KJV:
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Geneva:
The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.
10
KJV:
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Geneva:
A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
11
KJV:
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Geneva:
Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
12
KJV:
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Geneva:
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
13
KJV:
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Geneva:
It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.
14
KJV:
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Geneva:
His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, & shal cause him to go to the King of feare.
15
KJV:
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Geneva:
Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
16
KJV:
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Geneva:
His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.
17
KJV:
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Geneva:
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
18
KJV:
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Geneva:
They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
19
KJV:
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Geneva:
Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
20
KJV:
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Geneva:
The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.
21
KJV:
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Geneva:
Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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