Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
2 How long will it be before you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a snare.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
12 His strength shall be extremely hungry, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered on his habitation.
It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not God.
Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
