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“The lamp of the wicked will be put out,
    and the flame in their lamps will stop burning.
The light in their tents will grow dark,
    and the lamps ·by their sides [or above them] will go out.
Their ·strong steps [vigorous gait] will grow ·weak [cramped; restricted];
    ·they will fall into their own evil traps [or their own schemes/advice will throw them down].
Their feet will be caught in a net [Prov. 28:9]
    when they walk into ·its web [a snare].
A trap will catch them by the heel [Prov. 22:5]
    and [L a noose] hold them tight.
10 A ·trap for them [L rope] is hidden on the ground,
    right in their path.
11 ·Terrible things [L Terrors] startle them from every side
    and ·chase [or disperse] them at ·every step [L their feet].
12 ·Hunger takes away their strength [or Calamity is hungry for them],
    and disaster is ·at their side [or prepared for them when they stumble].
13 Disease eats away ·parts of their skin [or their fleshy limbs];
    ·death [L the firstborn of Death; C death is personified] ·gnaws at [consumes] their ·arms and legs [L limbs].
14 They are torn from the ·safety [confidence] of their tents
    and ·dragged off to Death, the King of Terrors [L terrors march them off to their king].
15 ·Their tents are set on fire [or Nothing of theirs will remain in their tents],
    and sulfur is scattered over their ·homes [or pastures].
16 Their roots dry up below ground,
    and their branches die above ground [C the wicked are like a dead tree].
17 People on earth will not remember them;
    their names will be forgotten in the land.
18 They will be driven from light into darkness
    and ·chased [driven] out of the world [C they will die].
19 They have no children or descendants among their people,
    and no one will be left alive where they once lived.
20 People ·of the west [or who come after] will be ·shocked [desolated] ·at what has happened to them [by their end/fate],
    and people ·of the east [or who came before] will be ·very frightened [seized with horror].
21 Surely this is ·what will happen to [L the dwelling of] the wicked;
    such is the place of one who does not know God.”

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“Indeed, the (A)light of the wicked goes out,
And the spark from his fire does not shine.
The light in his tent is (B)darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
His [a]vigorous stride is shortened,
And his (C)own plan brings him down.
For he is (D)thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
10 A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the pathway.
11 All around (E)sudden terrors frighten him,
And (F)harass him at every step.
12 His strength is (G)famished,
And disaster is ready at his side.
13 [b]It devours parts of his skin,
The firstborn of death (H)devours his [c]limbs.
14 He is (I)torn from [d]the security of his tent,
And [e]they march him before the king of (J)terrors.
15 [f]Nothing of his dwells in his tent;
(K)Brimstone is scattered on his home.
16 His (L)roots are dried below,
And his (M)branch withers above.
17 (N)The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
18 [g]He is driven from light (O)into darkness,
And (P)chased from the inhabited world.
19 He has no (Q)offspring or descendants among his people,
Nor any survivor where he resided.
20 Those in the west are appalled at (R)his [h]fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.
21 Certainly these are the (S)dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:7 Lit steps of his strength
  2. Job 18:13 Another reading is His skin is devoured by illness
  3. Job 18:13 Or parts
  4. Job 18:14 Lit his tent his trust
  5. Job 18:14 Lit you march or she marches
  6. Job 18:15 Another reading is Fire dwells in his tent
  7. Job 18:18 Lit They drive him...And chase him
  8. Job 18:20 Lit day