< Job 18 >
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror
15 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
to dwell in/on/with tent his from without to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God