Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

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

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

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

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

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

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

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

Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

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

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

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

The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

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

For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

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

There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

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

Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

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

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

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

Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

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

Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

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

Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

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

There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

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

Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

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

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

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

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

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

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

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

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

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

Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.