Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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

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

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

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

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?

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

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

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

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

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

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

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

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

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

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

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

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

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

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

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

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

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

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

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

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

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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

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

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

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”