Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

2 “When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

3 Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?

For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?

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?

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 Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.

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

6 The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.

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

7 The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.

His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.

8 For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.

For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.

9 A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.

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

10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.

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

11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.

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

12 His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.

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

13 The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.

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

14 He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

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

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

16 His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.

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

17 His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.

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

18 He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.

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

19 He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.

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

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.

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

21 Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”

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