When the Light Goes Out, Where Are You?

Job Chapter 18

When a conclusion comes first, what you see may not be the other person, but your own framework.

Bildad speaks again.

“The light of the wicked is put out.”

“The flame of his lamp is extinguished.”

The end of the wicked

is declared.

The conclusion is spoken first.

The wicked will perish.

The light goes out.

The outcome is clear.

People seek conclusions.

What will happen?

Where will it lead?

Because if they know,

they believe they can feel at ease.

Yet that conclusion

is laid over Job’s reality.

Bildad knows the end.

Yet that end

comes from his own righteousness.

When a conclusion comes first,

what is seen may not be the person,

but one’s own framework.

When the light goes out,

where are you?

Are you placing yourself

inside another’s conclusion?

Or do you stand before God

outside that conclusion?

Bildad spoke the end.

Job is placed

within that conclusion.

When the conclusion comes first,

what is seen may not be the person,

but one’s own framework.

God was still silent.