< Job 18 >
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his
13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror
15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
to dwell in/on/with tent his from without to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside
18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him
19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his
20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God