< Job 18 >

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your
4 Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his
6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
to dwell in/on/with tent his from without to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him
19 He shall not be known amongst his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God

< Job 18 >