Job 18
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?
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?
You who tear at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will 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 hidden for him on 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 will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.
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 safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
19 He shall not be known amongst his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
