Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

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 from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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