# Job 18 ## Job 18:1 - [KJV] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, - [ASV] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, - [YLT] And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 18:1 - ## Job 18:2 - [KJV] How long *will it be ere* ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. - [ASV] How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. - [YLT] When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. ### Notes on Job 18:2 - ## Job 18:3 - [KJV] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, *and* reputed vile in your sight? - [ASV] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, *And* are become unclean in your sight? - [YLT] Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! ### Notes on Job 18:3 - ## Job 18:4 - [KJV] He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? - [ASV] Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? - [YLT] (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? ### Notes on Job 18:4 - ## Job 18:5 - [KJV] Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. - [ASV] Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. - [YLT] Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. ### Notes on Job 18:5 - ## Job 18:6 - [KJV] The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. - [ASV] The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. - [YLT] The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. ### Notes on Job 18:6 - ## Job 18:7 - [KJV] The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. - [ASV] The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down. - [YLT] Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. ### Notes on Job 18:7 - ## Job 18:8 - [KJV] For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. - [ASV] For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. - [YLT] For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. ### Notes on Job 18:8 - ## Job 18:9 - [KJV] The gin shall take *him* by the heel, *and* the robber shall prevail against him. - [ASV] A gin shall take *him* by the heel, *And* a snare shall lay hold on him. - [YLT] Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. ### Notes on Job 18:9 - ## Job 18:10 - [KJV] The snare *is* laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. - [ASV] A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way. - [YLT] Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path. ### Notes on Job 18:10 - ## Job 18:11 - [KJV] Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. - [ASV] Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. - [YLT] Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet. ### Notes on Job 18:11 - ## Job 18:12 - [KJV] His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction *shall be* ready at his side. - [ASV] His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. - [YLT] Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. ### Notes on Job 18:12 - ## Job 18:13 - [KJV] It shall devour the strength of his skin: *even* the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. - [ASV] The members of his body shall be devoured, *Yea*, the first-born of death shall devour his members. - [YLT] It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. ### Notes on Job 18:13 - ## Job 18:14 - [KJV] His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. - [ASV] He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. - [YLT] Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. ### Notes on Job 18:14 - ## Job 18:15 - [KJV] It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because *it is* none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. - [ASV] There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. - [YLT] It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. ### Notes on Job 18:15 - ## Job 18:16 - [KJV] His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. - [ASV] His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. - [YLT] From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. ### Notes on Job 18:16 - ## Job 18:17 - [KJV] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. - [ASV] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. - [YLT] His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. ### Notes on Job 18:17 - ## Job 18:18 - [KJV] He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. - [ASV] He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. - [YLT] They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. ### Notes on Job 18:18 - ## Job 18:19 - [KJV] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. - [ASV] He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. - [YLT] He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. ### Notes on Job 18:19 - ## Job 18:20 - [KJV] They that come after *him* shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. - [ASV] They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. - [YLT] At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. ### Notes on Job 18:20 - ## Job 18:21 - [KJV] Surely such *are* the dwellings of the wicked, and this *is* the place *of him that* knoweth not God. - [ASV] Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God. - [YLT] Only these *are* tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known. ### Notes on Job 18:21 -