Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

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

When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

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

For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your 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?

Thou, the one that teareth himself to pieces in his anger— shall for thy sake the earth be forsaken, and the rock be moved away out of its place?

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

Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.

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

The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

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

His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.

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

For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.

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

The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over him.

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

The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.

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

All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.

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

His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.

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

It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.

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

Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and [the evil] will urge him forward to the king of terrors.

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

It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.

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

Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.

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

His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.

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

Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

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

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

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

Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.

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

Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.