Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 How long will ye lay snares for words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and then we will speak!

3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] are become unclean in your sight?

Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?

4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger! Must the earth be deserted for thee, And the rock removed from its place?

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Behold, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the flame of his fire shall not shine.

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

Light shall become darkness in his tent, And his lamp over him shall go out.

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His strong steps shall be straitened, And his own plans shall cast him down.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

He is brought into the net by his own feet, And he walketh upon snares.

9 A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] a snare shall lay hold on him.

The trap layeth hold of him by the heel, And the snare holdeth him fast.

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

A net is secretly laid for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the pathway.

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

Terrors affright him on every side, And harass him at his heels.

12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten and calamity shall be ready for his halting.

His strength is wasted by hunger, And destruction is ready at his side.

13 It shall devour the members of his body, [yea], the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

His limbs are consumed, Yea, his limbs are devoured by the first-born of death.

14 He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

He is torn from his tent, which was his confidence, And is borne away to the king of terrors.

15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

His roots below shall be dried up, And his branches above shall be withered.

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

His memory perisheth from the earth, And no name hath he in the land.

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

He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.

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

He hath no son, nor kinsman among his people, Nor any survivor in his dwelling-place.

20 They that come after shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

They that come after him shall be amazed at his fate, As they that were before them were struck with horror.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!