Job 18

1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

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

How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?

4 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?

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

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

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

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

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

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

A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.

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

A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.

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

His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

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

It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

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

That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

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

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

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

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.

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

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

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

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.

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

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.