Job 18:1-4
Evangelical Heritage Version
Round Two: Bildad’s Speech
18 Bildad the Shuhite responded:
2 How much longer are all of you going to keep hunting for words?[a]
Come to your senses! Then we can talk.
3 Why are we considered to be like cattle?
Why are we regarded as unreasoning animals in your eyes?
4 You, who tear yourself to pieces with your anger,
do you expect the earth to be made desolate for your sake?
Should rocks be moved from their place for you?
Footnotes
- Job 18:2 This line is difficult.
Job 18:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Bildad’s Second Speech
18 Then[a] Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “How long[b] will you[c] hunt for words?[d]
Consider,[e] and afterward we shall speak.
3 Why are we considered as animals?
Why are we taken as[f] stupid in your[g] eyes?
4 “You who are tearing yourself[h] in your[i] anger,
will the earth be forsaken because of you?[j]
Or[k] will the rock be removed from its place?
Footnotes
- Job 18:1 Hebrew “And”
- Job 18:2 Literally “Until when”
- Job 18:2 Plural
- Job 18:2 Literally “will you set a snare for words”
- Job 18:2 Or “you should consider”; plural second person
- Job 18:3 Or “considered”
- Job 18:3 Plural
- Job 18:4 Literally “his soul,” or “his individual self”
- Job 18:4 Hebrew “his”
- Job 18:4 Singular
- Job 18:4 Hebrew “And”
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