Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
2 “When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
3 Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?
Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in 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?
He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
5 Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
6 The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
The light has been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
7 The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.
The steps of his strength are restricted, And his own counsel casts him down.
8 For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And he habitually walks on a snare.
9 A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.
A trap seizes on the heel, The designing prevails over him.
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.
His cord is hidden in the earth, And his trap on the path.
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
Terrors have terrified him all around, And they have scattered him—at his feet.
12 His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
His sorrow is hungry, 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 consumes the parts of his skin, Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
14 He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
His confidence is drawn from his tent, And it causes him to step 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 dwells in his tent—out of his provender, Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above his crop is cut off.
17 His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
His memorial has perished from the land, And he has no name on the street.
18 He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
They thrust him from light to darkness, And cast him out from the habitable earth.
19 He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
He has no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
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.
At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, And those [in the] east have taken fright.
21 Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, And this [is] the place God has not known.”
