Job 18

1 Then Bildad replied [again]:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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

When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.

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

Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

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 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 “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 shalbe quenched, and the sparke 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 shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

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 shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.

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

For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.

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

The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon 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 snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe 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.

Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.

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

His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

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

It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.

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

His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.

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

Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon 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 rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

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 haue no name in the streete.

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

They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

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

Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.

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

The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.

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 habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.