Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
How long ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and then we will speak!
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
Why are we accounted as brutes, 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?
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger! Must the earth be deserted for thee, And the rock removed from its place?
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire will not shine.
Behold, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
Light shall become darkness in his tent, And his lamp over him shall go out.
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
His strong steps shall be straitened, And his own plans shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
He is brought into the net by his own feet, And he walketh upon snares.
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
The trap layeth hold of him by the heel, And the snare holdeth him fast.
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
A net is secretly laid for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the pathway.
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
Terrors affright him on every side, And harass him at his heels.
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
His strength is wasted by hunger, And destruction is ready at his side.
13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
His limbs are consumed, Yea, his limbs are devoured by the first-born of death.
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
He is torn from his tent, which was his confidence, And is borne away 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.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
His roots below shall be dried up, And his branches above shall be withered.
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
His memory perisheth from the earth, And no name hath he in the land.
18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.
19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
He hath no son, nor kinsman among his people, Nor any survivor in his dwelling-place.
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 amazed at his fate, As they that were before them were struck with horror.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who does not know God.”
Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!
