Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

2 How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

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

Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?

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

Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

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

Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

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

His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

9 A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.

His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

11 Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.

Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

12 His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

13 It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

14 That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.

15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

16 His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.

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

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

He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.

19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.

The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

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

And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.