Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

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

4 Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

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

6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

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

8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

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

9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.

10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.

12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

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

18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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

19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

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

20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.

21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

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