Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire will not shine.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

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 wanders into its mesh.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

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 unrighteous. This is the place of him who does not know God.”

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not El.