Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

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

6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is 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 become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

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

8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

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

9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

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

11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

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

12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the first-born of death shall devour his strength.

14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

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

16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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

17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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

18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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

19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

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

20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

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

21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

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