Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will 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 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

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

6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will 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 will be shortened. His own counsel will 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 wanders into its mesh.

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

9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

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

10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

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

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

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

12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

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

13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

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

14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will 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 will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

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

20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

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. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

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