Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

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

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

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

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

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

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

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

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

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

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”