Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
2 When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.
When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
3 For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
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?
(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
5 Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
6 The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
7 His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.
Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
8 For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
9 The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over him.
Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
10 The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.
Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
11 All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.
Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
12 His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
14 Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and [the evil] will urge him forward to the king of terrors.
Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
15 It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.
It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
16 Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
17 His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.
His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
18 Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.
He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
20 Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.
At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
21 Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.
Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
