Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
2 How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
6 The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
8 For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
9 The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
10 A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
11 Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
13 The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
15 They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
18 He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
19 He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
21 Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
