Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

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

How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

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

Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

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 ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?

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

Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

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

Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

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

His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

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

For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

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

His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

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

A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

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

Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

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

Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

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

Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

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

Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.

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

Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

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

Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

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

Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.

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

He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.

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

Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

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

The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

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

And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.