Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

3 Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

4 Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

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

5 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire 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 tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

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

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

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

8 For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

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

9 The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

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

10 A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.

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

11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

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

12 Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

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

13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

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

14 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

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

15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

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

16 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

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

17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

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

18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

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

20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

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

21 These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this 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.