Job 18

1 Then Bildad replied [again]:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

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

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

Why are we counted as beasts, and have become unclean in your eyes?

4 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]?

Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

5 “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.

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

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

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

7 [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].

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

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

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

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

A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.

10 [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.

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

11 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.

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

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

His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.