Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.
“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?
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?
You who tear at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
7 The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.
8 For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.
For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
9 The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.
A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.
10 A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.
11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
12 His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
13 It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.
The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.
14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.
He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.
16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.
His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
19 Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
20 The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.
Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.
21 Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
