Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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

How long will it be before all of you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

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

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

4 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The animal trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off 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 not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20 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.

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

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

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