Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

Then Baldad the Suhite 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 throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

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

Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

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?

Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

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

Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

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

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

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

The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.

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

For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

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

The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

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

A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.

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

Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

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

Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

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

Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

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

Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

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

Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

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

Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

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

Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

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

He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

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

His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

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

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

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

These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.