Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Bildad replied [again]:

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

“When are you going to stop talking [RHQ]? If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.

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

Why do you think that we are [as stupid] as cattle? [DOU, RHQ]

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?

By being [very] angry and hurting yourself, do you think that doing that will shake the earth, or cause the rocks in the mountains to move? [RHQ]?

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

“What will happen is that the lives of wicked people [like you] end [as quickly as we can] put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.

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

And when the lamps above them [in their tents] are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents.

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

[For many years] they walked confidently, but later [in life it was as though] they stumbled and fell, because [they themselves did not heed] the advice [that they gave to others].

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

[It was as though] they walked into their own net or fell into a pit that they themselves have dug.

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

[It was as though] a trap grabbed their heels and held them fast [DOU],

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

[as though the noose of] a rope that was hidden on the ground, [whose other end was fastened to the limb of a tree], seized them when they walked into it.

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

Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified; [it was as though] those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.

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

They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength. They experienced disasters [PRS] constantly.

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

Diseases spread all over their skin/bodies; diseases that (caused their bodies to decay/destroyed their arms and legs).

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

[When they died, ] they were snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead.

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

Now their tents will burn down, when burning sulfur rains down on those tents!

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

[Because those who died had no descendants], they were [like trees whose] roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered [MET].

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

No one on the earth will remember them any more; no [one on any] street [will even remember] their names [MTY].

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

They will be expelled from the earth where there is light, and they will be sent into the place where it is dark.

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

They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.

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

People from the east to the west [who hear about what happened to them], will be shocked and horrified.

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

And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people [like you], to people who (have no interest in/have rejected) God.”