Job 18

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.

"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean 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?

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? 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.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, 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. His lamp above 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 shortened. 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 wanders into its mesh.

9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.

The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn 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.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. 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. Sulfur shall be scattered on 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. Above shall his branch be cut off.

17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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 grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

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. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."