Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

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

3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile 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?

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his 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 spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

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

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

9 A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

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

10 A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

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

11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

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

12 His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

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

13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

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

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 tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

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

18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

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

20 Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before 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 wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not El.