Job 18
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid 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 at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans 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 will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”
