Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall 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 cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
15 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
