Part 15

18:016:022 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

18:017:001 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

18:017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

18:017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

18:017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

18:017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

18:017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

18:017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

18:017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

18:017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

18:017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

18:017:011 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

18:017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

18:017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

18:017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

18:017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

18:017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

18:018:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

18:018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

18:018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

18:018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18:018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

18:018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

18:018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

18:018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

18:018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

18:018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.