Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
7 His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
9 A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
10 A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
12 His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
16 The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
17 The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
20 Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
21 Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
