Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

3 Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

10 The snare [is] laid for him in 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 shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the first-born of death shall devour his strength.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

20 They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”