Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from 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 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step 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 dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.
