Job 18

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

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

How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] are become unclean in your sight?

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

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

12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten and calamity shall be ready for his halting.

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

13 It shall devour the members of his body, [yea], the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

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

14 He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

19 He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

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

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

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

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

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