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Bildad’s Second Speech

18 Then[a] Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

How long[b] will you[c] hunt for words?[d]
Consider,[e] and afterward we shall speak.
Why are we considered as animals?
Why are we taken as[f] stupid in your[g] eyes?
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?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 18:2 Literally “Until when”
  3. Job 18:2 Plural
  4. Job 18:2 Literally “will you set a snare for words”
  5. Job 18:2 Or “you should consider”; plural second person
  6. Job 18:3 Or “considered”
  7. Job 18:3 Plural
  8. Job 18:4 Literally “his soul,” or “his individual self”
  9. Job 18:4 Hebrew “his”
  10. Job 18:4 Singular
  11. Job 18:4 Hebrew “And”