Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

2 How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

3 For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

Why are we counted as beasts, and have become unclean in your eyes?

4 Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

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

6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.

10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

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

12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.

13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his body-parts.

14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

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

17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

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

18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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

19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

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

21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.