Job 18

1 Then Bildad replied [again]:

Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, 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 ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

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

For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid 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, 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 “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.

Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.

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

The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above 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].

His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will 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 driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.

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

The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over 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.

The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.

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.

All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.

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

His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.

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

It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.

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

Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and [the evil] will urge him forward to the king of terrors.

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

It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on 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].

Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.

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

His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.

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

Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

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

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

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

Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.

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

Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.