Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

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

When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?

4 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?

Thou, the one that teareth himself to pieces in his anger— shall for thy sake the earth be forsaken, and the rock be moved away out of its place?

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

Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.

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

The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

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

His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.

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

For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.

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

The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over him.

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

The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.

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

All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.

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

His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.

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

It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.

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

Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and [the evil] will urge him forward to the king of terrors.

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

It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.

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

Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.

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

His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.

18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

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

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

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

Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.

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

Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.