Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from 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 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step 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 dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He shall not be known amongst his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
