Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from 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 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
For he is driven into the net by his own feet, and he taketh his walk upon a snare.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
The trap will seize him by the heel, and the robber will prevail over him.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
The cord is hidden for him in the ground, and a trap is set for him on the pathway.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
His first-born will suffer hunger, and calamity will be ready for his wife.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
It will devour the limbs of his body: yea, the first-born of death will devour his limbs.
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step 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 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
Because of his [calamitous] day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.
