Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

And 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? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

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

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed 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?

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and 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 flame 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 become dark in his tent, and his lamp over 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 straitened, 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 sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

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

The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;

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

A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

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

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

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

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

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

The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

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

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

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

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered 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 on the pasture-grounds.

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

He is 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 hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

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

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.

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 man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.