Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 “When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3 Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4 You who tear at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
5 Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6 The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
7 The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.
His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8 For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.
A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.
A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
12 His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.
It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
14 He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
15 People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.
Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
16 His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
17 His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
18 He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
19 He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
20 Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.
Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21 Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
