Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards 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 dull 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? Or 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 spark 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 be 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 cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.
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 abroad.
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
He shall be 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 shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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 are 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 wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
