Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

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

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

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

For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

4 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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

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