Job 18
1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.
When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.
3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?
Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?
5 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;
The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;
For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.
9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:
The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.
10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.
A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.
Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;
It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.
14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.
15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;
His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.
17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:
Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.
The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.
21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.
Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
