Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?
4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
You who tear at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?
5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.
8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.
10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.
11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.
14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.
16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.
21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
