Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Job chapter 18

Then answered:How long until you put ? Get some sense, and then we can talk.Why are we counted as , treated as stupid in your eyes?You — should the earth be abandoned for your sake? Should ?Even so, the of goes out, and the flame of his fire gives no light.The light in his tent goes dark, and goes out.His strong stride is cut short, and throws him down.His own feet send him into the . He goes walking out across the mesh.A snare takes him by the heel. The noose and does not let go.His rope lies hidden in the ground, and the trap for him is set along the path. come at him from every side and chase him at every step.His strength goes hungry, and stands ready at his side.It eats the skin off his body. eats his arms and his legs.He is ripped out of and marched off to .What was never his moves into his tent, and is scattered over the ground where he lived.Underneath, . Overhead, the branches wither.His memory is gone from the land, and out in the street he has .They shove him out of the light into the dark and drive him off the face of the world. among his people, and nobody left alive where he used to live. are at what his day became, and are seized with horror.This is what the tents of an man come to. This is the place of a man who .