Job 18
1 Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 [Usque ad quem finem verba jactabitis? intelligite prius, et sic loquamur.
How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
3 Quare reputati sumus ut jumenta, et sorduimus coram vobis?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
4 Qui perdis animam tuam in furore tuo, numquid propter te derelinquetur terra, et transferentur rupes de loco suo?
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Nonne lux impii extinguetur, nec splendebit flamma ignis ejus?
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 Lux obtenebrescet in tabernaculo illius, et lucerna quæ super eum est extinguetur.
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
7 Arctabuntur gressus virtutis ejus, et præcipitabit eum consilium suum.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 Immisit enim in rete pedes suos, et in maculis ejus ambulat.
For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
9 Tenebitur planta illius laqueo, et exardescet contra eum sitis.
The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
10 Abscondita est in terra pedica ejus, et decipula illius super semitam.
A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
11 Undique terrebunt eum formidines, et involvent pedes ejus.
Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
12 Attenuetur fame robur ejus, et inedia invadat costas illius.
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 Devoret pulchritudinem cutis ejus; consumat brachia illius primogenita mors.
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
14 Avellatur de tabernaculo suo fiducia ejus, et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitus.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
15 Habitent in tabernaculo illius socii ejus qui non est; aspergatur in tabernaculo ejus sulphur.
They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
16 Deorsum radices ejus siccentur: sursum autem atteratur messis ejus.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
17 Memoria illius pereat de terra, et non celebretur nomen ejus in plateis.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
18 Expellet eum de luce in tenebras, et de orbe transferet eum.
He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 Non erit semen ejus, neque progenies in populo suo, nec ullæ reliquiæ in regionibus ejus.
He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
20 In die ejus stupebunt novissimi, et primos invadet horror.
They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
21 Hæc sunt ergo tabernacula iniqui, et iste locus ejus qui ignorat Deum.]
Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
