Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,
2 How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
“How long will you go on talking, hunting for the right words to say? Talk sense if you want us to reply!
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Do you think we're dumb animals? Do we look stupid to 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?
You tear yourself apart with your anger. Do you think the earth has to be abandoned, or the mountains moved, just because of you?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
It's certain that the life of the wicked will end like a lamp that is snuffed out—their flame will shine no more.
6 The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
The light in their home goes out, the lamp hanging above is extinguished.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Instead of taking strong strides they stumble, and their own plans cause them to fall.
8 For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
Their own feet trip them up and they are caught in a net; as they walk along they fall into a pit.
9 The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
A trap grabs them by the heel; a snare tightens around them.
10 A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
A noose is hidden on the ground for them; a rope is stretched across the path to trip them.
11 Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
Terrors scare the wicked, coming at them from every side, chasing them, biting at their heels.
12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Hunger robs them of strength; disaster waits for them when they fall.
13 The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
Disease devours their skin; deadly disease consumes their limbs.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
They are torn from the homes they trusted in and taken to the king of terrors.
15 They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
People they don't know will live in their homes; sulfur will be scattered where they used to live.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
They wither away, roots below and branches above;
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
the memory of them fades from the earth; nobody remembers their names any more.
18 He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.
19 He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.
20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
People of the west are appalled at what happens to them. People of the east are shocked.
21 Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
This is what happens to the homes of the wicked, to the places of those who reject God.”
