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