Job 18

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

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

3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

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

4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its 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 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

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

6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

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

7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

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

8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

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

9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

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

10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

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

11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

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

12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

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

13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

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

14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

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

15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

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

16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

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

17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

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

18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

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

19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.

20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

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, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, 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.”