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