Job 18

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¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ✦ ²“How long till you put an end to words? Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak. ✦ ³Why are we counted as beasts, And regarded as stupid in your sight? ✦ ⁴You who tear yourself in anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place? ✦ ⁵“Thelight of the wicked indeed goes out, And the flame of his fire does not shine. ✦ ⁶The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out. ✦ ⁷The steps of his strength are shortened, And his own counsel casts him down. ✦ ⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare. ✦ ⁹The net takes him by the heel, And a snare lays hold of him. ✦ ¹⁰A noose is hidden for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the road. ✦ ¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side, And drive him to his feet. ✦ ¹²His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side. ✦ ¹³It devours patches of his skin; The firstborn of death devours his limbs. ✦ ¹⁴He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors. ✦ ¹⁵They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling. ✦ ¹⁶His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above. ✦ ¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned. ✦ ¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. ✦ ¹⁹He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings. ✦ ²⁰Those in the west are astonished at his day, As those in the east are frightened. ✦ ²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God.” ✦

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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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