Job 18
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in 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?
He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
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 in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
