Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
