Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
15 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
