Job 18
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? 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.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock 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 doth 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 hath 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].
Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
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 on a snare he doth walk habitually.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth 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 dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
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 cut off is his crop.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
He hath 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 westerns have been astonished And easterns 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] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
