Job 18
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
μέχρι τίνος οὐ παύσῃ ἐπίσχες ἵνα καὶ αὐτοὶ λαλήσωμεν
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
διὰ τί ὥσπερ τετράποδα σεσιωπήκαμεν ἐναντίον σου
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?
κέχρηταί σοι ὀργή τί γάρ ἐὰν σὺ ἀποθάνῃς ἀοίκητος ἡ ὑπ’ οὐρανόν ἢ καταστραφήσεται ὄρη ἐκ θεμελίων
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
καὶ φῶς ἀσεβῶν σβεσθήσεται καὶ οὐκ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῶν ἡ φλόξ
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
τὸ φῶς αὐτοῦ σκότος ἐν διαίτῃ ὁ δὲ λύχνος ἐπ’ αὐτῷ σβεσθήσεται
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
θηρεύσαισαν ἐλάχιστοι τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ σφάλαι δὲ αὐτοῦ ἡ βουλή
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
ἐμβέβληται δὲ ὁ ποὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν παγίδι ἐν δικτύῳ ἑλιχθείη
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
ἔλθοισαν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν παγίδες κατισχύσει ἐπ’ αὐτὸν διψῶντας
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
κέκρυπται ἐν τῇ γῇ σχοινίον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ σύλλημψις αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τρίβων
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
κύκλῳ ὀλέσαισαν αὐτὸν ὀδύναι πολλοὶ δὲ περὶ πόδας αὐτοῦ ἔλθοισαν ἐν λιμῷ στενῷ
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
πτῶμα δὲ αὐτῷ ἡτοίμασται ἐξαίσιον
13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
βρωθείησαν αὐτοῦ κλῶνες ποδῶν κατέδεται δὲ τὰ ὡραῖα αὐτοῦ θάνατος
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
ἐκραγείη δὲ ἐκ διαίτης αὐτοῦ ἴασις σχοίη δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνάγκη αἰτίᾳ βασιλικῇ
15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
κατασκηνώσει ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ αὐτοῦ ἐν νυκτὶ αὐτοῦ κατασπαρήσονται τὰ εὐπρεπῆ αὐτοῦ θείῳ
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
ὑποκάτωθεν αἱ ῥίζαι αὐτοῦ ξηρανθήσονται καὶ ἐπάνωθεν ἐπιπεσεῖται θερισμὸς αὐτοῦ
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ ἀπόλοιτο ἐκ γῆς καὶ ὑπάρχει ὄνομα αὐτῷ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐξωτέρω
18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
ἀπώσειεν αὐτὸν ἐκ φωτὸς εἰς σκότος
19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
οὐκ ἔσται ἐπίγνωστος ἐν λαῷ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ σεσῳσμένος ἐν τῇ ὑπ’ οὐρανὸν ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ ἀλλ’ ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῦ ζήσονται ἕτεροι
20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐστέναξαν ἔσχατοι πρώτους δὲ ἔσχεν θαῦμα
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
οὗτοί εἰσιν οἶκοι ἀδίκων οὗτος δὲ ὁ τόπος τῶν μὴ εἰδότων τὸν κύριον
