< Job 18 >
1 and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
2 till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak
When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.
3 why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your
For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?
4 to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his
Thou, the one that teareth himself to pieces in his anger— shall for thy sake the earth be forsaken, and the rock be moved away out of its place?
5 also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his
Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.
6 light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out
The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.
7 be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his
His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.
8 for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk
For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.
9 to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare
The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over him.
10 to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path
The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.
11 around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his
All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.
12 to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his
His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.
13 to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death
It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.
14 to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror
Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and [the evil] will urge him forward to the king of terrors.
15 to dwell in/on/with tent his from without to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone
It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.
16 from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his
Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.
17 memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside
His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.
18 to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him
Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.
19 not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.
20 upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering
Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.
21 surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God
Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.