Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

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?

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

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

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

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

Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

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

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

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

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.