Job 18

1 THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

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

“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?

4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his 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 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.

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

The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will be put out.

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

The steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.

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

For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.

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

A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on him.

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

A noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.

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

Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.

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

His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.

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

The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.

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

He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

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

People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.

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

His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.

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

His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.

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

He will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.

19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any 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 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

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

Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”