Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

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

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

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

His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

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

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

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

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

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

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.