Job 18

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

2 How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

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

Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

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?

Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

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

Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

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

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

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

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

8 For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

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

The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

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

A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.

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

Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

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

Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

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

Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

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

Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

15 They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.

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

18 He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

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

His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

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

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

21 Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.

These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.