Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

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

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

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

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

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?

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

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

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

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

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

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

Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

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

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

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

Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

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

Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

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

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.

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

Hungry is his sorrow, 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 consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

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

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step 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.

It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

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

From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

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

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

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

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

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

He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

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

At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

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

Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.