Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 “How long will you go on talking, hunting for the right words to say? Talk sense if you want us to reply!

How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Do you think we're dumb animals? Do we look stupid to you?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

4 You tear yourself apart with your anger. Do you think the earth has to be abandoned, or the mountains moved, just because of you?

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

5 It's certain that the life of the wicked will end like a lamp that is snuffed out—their flame will shine no more.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light in their home goes out, the lamp hanging above is extinguished.

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7 Instead of taking strong strides they stumble, and their own plans cause them to fall.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 Their own feet trip them up and they are caught in a net; as they walk along they fall into a pit.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

9 A trap grabs them by the heel; a snare tightens around them.

The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

10 A noose is hidden on the ground for them; a rope is stretched across the path to trip them.

The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Terrors scare the wicked, coming at them from every side, chasing them, biting at their heels.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

12 Hunger robs them of strength; disaster waits for them when they fall.

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

13 Disease devours their skin; deadly disease consumes their limbs.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

14 They are torn from the homes they trusted in and taken to the king of terrors.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 People they don't know will live in their homes; sulfur will be scattered where they used to live.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 They wither away, roots below and branches above;

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

17 the memory of them fades from the earth; nobody remembers their names any more.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18 They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

19 They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

20 People of the west are appalled at what happens to them. People of the east are shocked.

They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

21 This is what happens to the homes of the wicked, to the places of those who reject God.”

Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.