Job 18
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
How long ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and then we will speak!
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?
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 that tearest thyself in thine anger! Must the earth be deserted for thee, And the rock removed from its place?
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
Behold, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
Light shall become darkness in his tent, And his lamp over him shall go out.
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
His strong steps shall be straitened, And his own plans shall cast him down.
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
He is brought into the net by his own feet, And he walketh upon snares.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
The trap layeth hold of him by the heel, And the snare holdeth him fast.
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
A net is secretly laid for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the pathway.
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
Terrors affright him on every side, And harass him at his heels.
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
His strength is wasted by hunger, And destruction is ready at his side.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
His limbs are consumed, Yea, his limbs are devoured by the first-born of death.
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
He is torn from his tent, which was his confidence, And is borne away to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
His roots below shall be dried up, And his branches above shall be withered.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
His memory perisheth from the earth, And no name hath he in the land.
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.
19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
He hath no son, nor kinsman among his people, Nor any survivor in his dwelling-place.
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
They that come after him shall be amazed at his fate, As they that were before them were struck with horror.
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!
