Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
6 The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
7 The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
9 A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
10 His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
11 Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
12 His sorrow is hungry, And calamity is ready at his side.
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
17 His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
18 They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
19 He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
20 At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
21 Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
