Job 18:6-21

(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. (9) The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. (10) The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. (11) В¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. (12) His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. (13) It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. (14) His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. (15) It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. (16) His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. (17) His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. (18) He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (19) He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. (20) They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. (21) Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

I see no reason for making a break in this discourse of Bildad. It should seem better to read it wholly through, and then look to gather into one point of view, the drift of his whole reasoning. The Shuhite is not through the whole of it, speaking personally of Job, but rather his object is to make Job draw the application of his discourse himself. He is describing the character of an hypocrite, and then pointing to his sure destruction. And this he doth under several particulars. His candle shall be put out. The sparks he hath kindled shall not shine. His feet shall be taken as in a net. His life shall be in terrors. Both root and branch shall die. When Bildad had thus drawn out in a very finished manner, the picture of the wicked; he evidently intended that Job should feel, that it was he whom the Shuhite had in view. The close of his lecture evidently implied all this, for he calls it the misery of such an end, and which as for as outward things reached, marked the present situation of the man of Uz.