Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror
15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
to dwell in/on/with tent his from without to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God
