Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Bildad replied [again]:

2 When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.

“When are you going to stop talking [RHQ]? If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.

3 Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

Why do you think that we are [as stupid] as cattle? [DOU, RHQ]

4 Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?

By being [very] angry and hurting yourself, do you think that doing that will shake the earth, or cause the rocks in the mountains to move? [RHQ]?

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.

“What will happen is that the lives of wicked people [like you] end [as quickly as we can] put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.

6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

And when the lamps above them [in their tents] are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents.

7 The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.

[For many years] they walked confidently, but later [in life it was as though] they stumbled and fell, because [they themselves did not heed] the advice [that they gave to others].

8 For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.

[It was as though] they walked into their own net or fell into a pit that they themselves have dug.

9 The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.

[It was as though] a trap grabbed their heels and held them fast [DOU],

10 A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

[as though the noose of] a rope that was hidden on the ground, [whose other end was fastened to the limb of a tree], seized them when they walked into it.

11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.

Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified; [it was as though] those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.

12 His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength. They experienced disasters [PRS] constantly.

13 It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.

Diseases spread all over their skin/bodies; diseases that (caused their bodies to decay/destroyed their arms and legs).

14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.

[When they died, ] they were snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead.

15 Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.

Now their tents will burn down, when burning sulfur rains down on those tents!

16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

[Because those who died had no descendants], they were [like trees whose] roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered [MET].

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

No one on the earth will remember them any more; no [one on any] street [will even remember] their names [MTY].

18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

They will be expelled from the earth where there is light, and they will be sent into the place where it is dark.

19 Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.

They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.

20 The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.

People from the east to the west [who hear about what happened to them], will be shocked and horrified.

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

And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people [like you], to people who (have no interest in/have rejected) God.”